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    ISBN: 9780444501578
    Content: The labor market occupies center stage in modern theories of fluctuations. The most important phenomenon to explain and understand in a recession is the sharp decline in employment and jump in unemployment. This chapter considers explanations based on frictions in the labor market. Earlier research within the real business cycle paradigm considered frictionless labor markets where fluctuations in the volume of work effort represented substitution by households between work in the market and activities at home. A preliminary section of the chapter discusses why frictionless models are incomplete — they fail to account for either the magnitude or persistence of fluctuations in employment. And the frictionless models fail completely to describe unemployment. The evidence suggests strongly that consideration of unemployment as a third use of time is critical for a realistic model. The two elements of a theory of unemployment are a mechanism for workers to lose or leave their jobs and an explanation for the time required from them to find new jobs. Theories of mechanism design or of continuous re-bargaining of employment terms provide the first. The theory of job search together with efficiency wages and related issues provides the second. Modern macro models incorporating these features come much closer than their predecessors to realistic and rigorous explanations of the magnitude and persistence of fluctuations.
    In: Handbook of macroeconomics, Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 1999, (1999), Seite 1137-1170, 9780444501578
    In: 0444501568
    In: 0444501584
    In: 9780444501561
    In: 9780444501585
    In: year:1999
    In: pages:1137-1170
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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