Emerging market business cycles: labor market frictions
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Main Author: Boz, Emine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] International Monetary Fund c2012
Series:IMF working paper WP/12/237
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Oct. 4, 2012). - "Research Department.". - "October 2012."
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
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (51 p.)
ISBN:9781475512496
147551249X

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