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The cyclical behavior of job creation and job destruction: a sectoral model

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Jeremy Greenwood
Glenn M. MacDonald
Guang-Jia Zhang

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Three key features of the employment process in the U.S. economy are that job creation is procyclical, job destruction is countercyclical, and job creation is less volatile than job destruction. These features are also found at the sectoral (goods and services) level. The paper develops, calibrates, and simulates a two sector general equilibrium model including both aggregate and sectoral shocks. The behavior of the model economy mimics the job creation and destruction facts. Sectoral shocks play a significant role in determining the aggregate level of nonemployment.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in its series Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics with number 88.

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Date of creation: 1994
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Keywords: Business cycles ; Labor turnover;

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