Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28324 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1496
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success. However, it cannot explain much of the behavior of employment, vacancies, and job flows in postwar US data without resorting to additional shocks beyond monetary policy and productivity shocks. In particular, the model suggests that monetary policy shocks can account for only a small portion of postwar fluctuations, except for the Volcker and late-1940s episodes. Productivity shocks can account for some of the pattern in labor's share and in employment between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. Based on the timing of observed fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, and productivity, it appears that the vast majority of observed fluctuations in the real economy remain unexplained by standard real and nominal shocks.
Subjects: 
Unemployment
labor market search
job flows
labor share
inflation
productivity shocks
monetary shocks
JEL: 
E24
E32
E52
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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