Arbeitspapier

Search frictions on product and labor markets: money in the matching function

This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to search-frictions on the product market, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the ratio of total demand to total supply on this market. When prices are at their Competitive Search Equilibrium values, the unemployment rate is minimized. Yet, the Competitive Search Equilibrium is not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2718

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Arbeitslosigkeit
Matching
Inflation
Gleichgewichtstheorie
Theorie der Arbeitslosigkeit
Arbeitsuche
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lehmann, Etienne
van der Linden, Bruno
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2007

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080402563
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Lehmann, Etienne
  • van der Linden, Bruno
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2007

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