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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825600903321

Autore

Boz Emine

Titolo

Emerging Market Business Cycles : : The Role of Labor Market Frictions / / Emine Boz, Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Nan Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-1251-1

1-4755-1249-X

1-283-86663-3

1-4755-7277-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (52 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/237

Altri autori (Persone)

DurduCeyhun Bora

LiNan

Disciplina

332.1;332.152

Soggetti

Business cycles

Business forecasting

Labor

Macroeconomics

Production and Operations Management

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Economic Growth of Open Economies

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Demand and Supply of Labor: General

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Labour



income economics

Labor markets

Consumption

Total factor productivity

National accounts

Labor market

Economics

Industrial productivity

Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Empirical Evidence on Emerging Economy Labor Markets; 3 A Small Open Economy Model with Search-Matching Frictions; 4 Quantitative Analysis; 4.1 Calibration; 4.2 Solution: Nonlinear Methods; 4.3 The Model Dynamics; 4.4 Main Findings; Canonical SOE-RBC; Search-Matching Model; 4.5 Sensitivity Analysis; 5 Matching efficiency shocks; 6 Conclusion; References; References; Appendixes; A: Data Appendix; B: TFP computation; C: Decentralized Economy; D: Canonical SOE-RBC; Tables; Table 1: Real earnings; Table 2: Unemployment Rate and Employment

Table 3: Hours worked: Manufacturing and AggregateTable 4: Calibrated Parameters; Table 5: Business Cycle Moments; Table 6: Sensitivity Analysis; Table 7: Matching Efficiency Shocks; Figures; Figure 2: Limiting Distributions of Endogenous State Variables; Figure 3: Impulse Response Functions: Main Macroeconomic Variables; Figure 4: Impulse Response Functions: Labor Market Variables; Figure 1: Sectoral Decomposition of Employment

Sommario/riassunto

Emerging economies are characterized by higher consumption and real wage variability relative to output and a strongly countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open economy that embeds a Mortensen-Pissarides type of search-matching frictions and countercyclical interest rate shocks can jointly account for these regularities. In the face of countercyclical interest rate shocks, search-matching frictions increase future employment uncertainty, improving workers’ incentive to save and generating a greater response of consumption and the current account. Higher consumption response in turn feeds into larger fluctuations in the workers’ bargaining power while the interest rates shocks lead to variations in the firms’ willingness to hire; both of which contribute to a highly variable real wage.