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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment / Mark Bils, Yongsung Chang, Sun-Bin Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bils, Mark.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15166.
- NBER working paper series no. w15166
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2009.
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