Worker Heterogeneity, Selection, and Unemployment Dynamics in a Pandemic
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Worker Heterogeneity, Selection, and Unemployment Dynamics in a Pandemic. / Ravenna, Federico; Walsh, Carl E.
I: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Bind 54, Nr. S1, 2022, s. 113-155.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Worker Heterogeneity, Selection, and Unemployment Dynamics in a Pandemic
AU - Ravenna, Federico
AU - Walsh, Carl E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Ohio State University
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We employ a new Keynesian model with random search in the labor market and endogenous selection among heterogeneous workers to investigate the impact of a pandemic-induced recession on the distribution of unemployment across workers. In such a recession, workers whose unemployment spells in normal times are inefficiently frequent and long are disproportionately affected. This remains true even when the pandemic initially causes mass layoffs that affect workers broadly or if many separations represent temporary layoffs. Monetary policy that responds to labor market variables affects unemployment for all workers but does relatively little for the distribution of unemployment across workers types.
AB - We employ a new Keynesian model with random search in the labor market and endogenous selection among heterogeneous workers to investigate the impact of a pandemic-induced recession on the distribution of unemployment across workers. In such a recession, workers whose unemployment spells in normal times are inefficiently frequent and long are disproportionately affected. This remains true even when the pandemic initially causes mass layoffs that affect workers broadly or if many separations represent temporary layoffs. Monetary policy that responds to labor market variables affects unemployment for all workers but does relatively little for the distribution of unemployment across workers types.
U2 - 10.1111/jmcb.12899
DO - 10.1111/jmcb.12899
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85122077426
VL - 54
SP - 113
EP - 155
JO - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
JF - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
SN - 0022-2879
IS - S1
ER -
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