Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/224060 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 2162
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We embed human capital-based endogenous growth into a New-Keynesian model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great Recession: a decline in productivity growth, the relative stability of inflation despite a pronounced fall in output (the "missing disinflation puzzle"), and a permanent gap between output and the pre-crisis trend output. In the model, lower aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders learning-by-doing, which slows down human capital accumulation, feeding back into even fewer vacancies than justified by the demand shock alone. These feedback channels mitigate the disinflationary effect of the demand shock while amplifying its contractionary effect on output. The temporary growth slowdown translates into output hysteresis (permanently lower output and labor productivity).
Subjects: 
endogenous growth
search and matching
unemployment
nominal rigidity
monetary policy
output hysteresis
JEL: 
E24
E31
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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