Capital mobility and labor market volatility

We used a dynamic two-country optimizing model featuring efficiency wages to analyze the implications of capital mobility for labor market volatility. Capital mobility magnifies the short-run effects of productivity shocks and monetary shocks on employment and the real wage, but dampens the medium-r...

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Veröffentlicht in:International economics and economic policy 2010-12, Vol.7 (4), p.391-409
Hauptverfasser: Alper Çenesiz, M, Pierdzioch, Christian
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We used a dynamic two-country optimizing model featuring efficiency wages to analyze the implications of capital mobility for labor market volatility. Capital mobility magnifies the short-run effects of productivity shocks and monetary shocks on employment and the real wage, but dampens the medium-run effects. The overall effects of capital mobility on the volatility and the cyclical properties of employment and the real wage are moderate.
ISSN:1612-4804
1612-4812
DOI:10.1007/s10368-010-0146-z