Arbeitspapier

Labor productivity, effort and the euro area business cycle

The Euro Area is characterized by little variation in unemployment and strongly procyclical labor productivity. We capture both characteristics in a New Keynesian business cycle model with labor search frictions, where labor can vary along three margins: employment, hours, and effort. We estimate the model with Bayesian methods and find evidence for a significant use of the effort margin in generating procyclical productivity. We show that a model with labor effort is more successful at matching the business cycle facts than is one with variable capital utilization or dominant technology shocks. Finally, we demonstrate that effort dampens the response of inflation to exogenous shocks.

ISBN
978-3-95729-649-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 44/2019

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General
Thema
effort
labor utilization
labor productivity
inflation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lewis, Vivien
Villa, Stefania
Wolters, Maik H.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lewis, Vivien
  • Villa, Stefania
  • Wolters, Maik H.
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2019

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