Arbeitspapier
Accounting for the cyclical dynamics of income shares
Over the business cycle, labor's share of output is negatively but weakly correlated with output, and it lags output by about four quarters. Profit's share is strongly procyclical. It neither leads nor lags output, and its volatility is about four times that of output. Despite the importance of understanding the dynamics of income shares for understanding aggregate technology and the degree of competition in factor markets, macroeconomics lacks models that can account for these dynamics. This paper constructs a model that can replicate those facts. We introduce costly entry of firms in a model with frictional labor markets and find a link between the ability of the model to replicate income shares' dynamics and the ability of the model to amplify and propagate shocks. That link is a countercyclical real interest rate, a well-known fact in U.S. data but a feature that models of aggregate fluctuations have had difficulty achieving.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011-9
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- Thema
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labor's share
frictional labor market
firm entry
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Shao, Enchuan
Silos, Pedro
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Atlanta, GA
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Shao, Enchuan
- Silos, Pedro
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Entstanden
- 2011
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