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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire: Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News / Cosmin Ilut, Matthias Kehrig, Martin Schneider.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ilut, Cosmin.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Kehrig, Matthias.
Schneider, Martin.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20473.
NBER working paper series no. w20473
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Other Title:
Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
Summary:
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional "macro" volatility and cross-sectional "micro" volatility, as well as negative skewness in the cross-section and in the time series at different levels of aggregation. Concave establishment-level responses of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and amplification of bad aggregate shocks.
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September 2014.

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