Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145140 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10006
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions and credit constraints. In the model, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are more productive at higher levels of firm output, lower credit supply increases firm capital intensity, raises inequality by increasing the rental of capital relative to the wage, and has an ambiguous effect on welfare. At initial high levels of labor share in total costs tighter credit lowers welfare. This pattern reverses during an expansionary phase caused by higher credit availability.
Subjects: 
monopolistic competition
functional inequality
search unemployment
credit constraints
JEL: 
D43
E24
G21
J31
J64
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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