Arbeitspapier

On-the-job search and the cyclical dynamics of the labor market

We show how on-the-job search and the propagation of shocks to the economy are intricately linked. Rising search by employed workers in a boom amplifies the incentives of firms to post vacancies. In turn, more vacancies induce more on-the-job search. By keeping job creation costs low for firms, on-the-job search greatly amplifies shocks. In our baseline calibration, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are close to the data, and leads output to be highly autocorrelated.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2007,15

Classification
Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Subject
Search and matching
job-to-job mobility
worker flows
Beveridge curve
business cycle
propagation
Arbeitsuche
Arbeitsmobilität
Dynamisches Gleichgewicht
Matching
Beveridge-Kurve
Konjunktur
Arbeitslosigkeit
Friktionelle Arbeitslosigkeit
Schätzung
USA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Krause, Michael
Lubik, Thomas A.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2007

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Krause, Michael
  • Lubik, Thomas A.
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Time of origin

  • 2007

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