On firm-level, industry-level, and aggregate employment fluctuations
- Autores: Miguel Casares Polo
- Localización: Documentos de Trabajo ( Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía ), Nº. 9, 2013
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Employment fluctuations are examined, at different levels of aggregation, in a dynamic model that provides firm-specific hiring decisions due to search frictions and sticky pricing. The results indicate that firm-level employment dispersion rises with higher price stickiness and higher demand elasticity, whereas it falls with more convexity of search costs and with a higher labor supply elasticity. Industry-level employment is more volatile and less procyclical than aggregate employment, and a larger industry size reduces volatility and raises co-movement with output. The calibrated model is able to match the volatility, autocorrelation and cyclical correlation of US industry-level employment when incorporating firm-specific technology shocks.
