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The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment / Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Loukas Karabarbounis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19678.
- NBER working paper series no. w19678
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- The flow opportunity cost of moving from unemployment to employment consists of foregone public benefits and the foregone value of non-working time in units of consumption. We construct a time series of the opportunity cost of employment using detailed microdata and administrative or national accounts data to estimate benefit levels, eligibility and take-up of benefits, consumption by labor force status, hours per worker, taxes, and preference parameters. Our estimated opportunity cost is procyclical and volatile over the business cycle. The estimated cyclicality implies far less unemployment volatility in many leading models of the labor market than that observed in the data, irrespective of the level of the opportunity cost.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2013.
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