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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Gross Worker Flows over the Business Cycle

  • Per Krusell
  • Toshihiko Mukoyama
  • Richard Rogerson
  • Ayşegül Şahin
American Economic Review
vol. 107, no. 11, November 2017
(pp. 3447–76)
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Abstract

We build a hybrid model of the aggregate labor market that features both standard labor supply forces and frictions in order to study the cyclical properties of gross worker flows across the three labor market states: employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Our parsimonious model is able to capture the key features of the cyclical movements in gross worker flows. Despite the fact that the wage per efficiency unit is constant over time, intertemporal substitution plays an important role in shaping fluctuations in the participation rate.

Citation

Krusell, Per, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson, and Ayşegül Şahin. 2017. "Gross Worker Flows over the Business Cycle." American Economic Review, 107 (11): 3447–76. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20121662

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JEL Classification

  • E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
  • E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
  • J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
  • J65 Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings