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Search Frictions, Efficiency Wages and Equilibrium Unemployment

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  • Chris Martin

    (University of Bath)

  • Bingsong Wang

    (University of Warwick)

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"This paper explores the decomposition of equilibrium unemployment into involuntary and frictional components using a model that combines efficiency wages with search and matching frictions in the labour market. In deriving our results we generalise the celebrated Solow Condition, expressing the wage as the sum of a pure efficiency wage component and a component that reflects search frictions. Using standard values of calibrated parameters, we find that the bulk of unemployment is involuntary."

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  • Chris Martin & Bingsong Wang, 2018. "Search Frictions, Efficiency Wages and Equilibrium Unemployment," Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, vol. 10(1), pages 45-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ren:journl:v:10:y:2018:i:1:p:45-54
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    1. Aleksandar Vasilev, 2021. "A Real-Business-Cycle model with search-and-matching frictions and efficiency ("fair") wages," Journal of Economics and Econometrics, Economics and Econometrics Society, vol. 64(2), pages 1-23.

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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General

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