Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171374 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2017-99
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock (which appears to be in line with recent empirical findings), the volatilities of unemployment and labor market tightness are not as high as their empirical counterparts. This calls for the introduction of new tools that will amplify the volatilities of these variables. This paper contributes to the theoretical literature by studying the effect of employment-to-employment flows in a New Keynesian model with labor market frictions. In that regard, the authors assume two types of firms which offer different wage levels, thereby incentivizing low-paid agents to search on-the-job. Differently from the literature, the main source of wage dispersion is the assumption of different bargaining powers of firms motivated by the strength of labor unions. The authors show that the proposed model generates a higher volatility of unemployment and labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock compared to the model without on-the-job search without causing a change in the responses of the other variables.
Subjects: 
New Keynesian model
employment-to-employment flow
unemployment fluctuations
the Shimer puzzle
search and matching
JEL: 
E12
E24
E32
J63
J65
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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