The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited

55 Pages Posted: 27 Jan 2008

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Marcus Hagedorn

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Iourii Manovskii

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Date Written: January 2008

Abstract

Recently, a number of authors have argued that the standard search model cannot generate the observed business-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation and cyclicality of wages to identify the two key parameters of the model - the value of non-market activity and the bargaining weights. Our calibration implies that the model is, in fact, consistent with the data.

Keywords: search, matching, business cycles, labor markets

JEL Classification: E24, E32, J41, J63, J64

Suggested Citation

Hagedorn, Marcus and Manovskii, Iourii, The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited (January 2008). ECB Working Paper No. 853, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1080246 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1080246

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Iourii Manovskii

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