Hysteresis in Unemployment and Jobless Recoveries

May 6, 2014

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Dmitry Plotnikov. Hysteresis in Unemployment and Jobless Recoveries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium rational expectations model with search and multiple equilibria where aggregate shocks have a permanent effect on the unemployment rate. If agents' wealth decreases, the unemployment rate increases for a potentially indefinite period. This makes unemployment rate dynamics path dependent as in Blanchard and Summers (1987). I argue that this feature explains the persistence of the unemployment rate in the U.S. after the Great Recession and over the entire postwar period.

Subject: Consumption, Employment, Labor, National accounts, Real wages, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Business cycles, Confidence interval, Consumption, Depreciation rate, Employment, Hysteresis, Production function, Productivity shock, Real wage, Real wages, Sunspots, TFP fluctuation, TFP series, TFP shock, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, WP

Publication Details

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37
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Working Paper No. 2014/077
Stock No:

WPIEA2014077
ISBN:

9781484371749
ISSN:

1018-5941

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