The dark corners of the labor market
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- dc.contributor.author Sterk, Vincentca
- dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-30T14:28:01Z
- dc.date.available 2016-05-30T14:28:01Z
- dc.date.issued 2016-01
- dc.description.abstract Standard models predict that episodes of high unemployment are followed by recoveries. This paper shows, by contrast, that a large shock may set the economy on a path towards very high unemployment, with no recovery in sight. First, I estimate a reduced-form model of flows in the U.S. labor market, allowing for the possibility of multiple steady states. Next, I estimate a non-linear search and matching model, in which multiplicity of steady states may arise due to skill losses upon unemployment, following Pissarides (1992). In both cases, estimates imply a stable steady state with around 5 percent unemployment and an unstable one with around 10 percent unemployment. The search and matching model can explain observed job finding rates remarkably well, due to its strong endogenous persistence mechanism.ca
- dc.description.sponsorship The ADEMU Working Paper Series is being supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 European Union funding for Research & Innovation, grant agreement No 649396.
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26784
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Ademu Working Papers Series;10
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/649396
- dc.rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properlyattributed.ca
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- dc.subject.keyword Unemployment
- dc.subject.keyword Multiple steady states
- dc.subject.keyword Non-linear estimation
- dc.title The dark corners of the labor marketca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperca