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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment

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Mark Bils (University of Rochester and NBER)
Yongsung Chang (University of Rochester and Yonsei University)
Sun-Bin Kim (Department of Economics, Korea University)

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We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion in wages across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment.

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Paper provided by Institute of Economic Research, Korea University in its series Discussion Paper Series with number 0805.

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