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Job reallocation, idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations

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  • Gautier, Pieter

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics)

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This paper shows how idiosyncratic shocks, macro-economic complementarities and a reallocation timing effect, can lead to multiple cyclical output equilibria. When reallocating labor from low productivity plants to high productivity plants takes time and effort which cannot be used for normal production, the best time for an individual firm to reallocate labor is in a recession when demand is low anyway. In the presence of complementarities and positive spillovers, a negative demand shock for one firm will give this firm an incentive to reallocate, but because reallocation itself also leads to lower output this will decrease the demand for the goods of other firms. Therefore those other firms will have an incentive to reallocate as well. After the reallocation process is finished, output will increase again.

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  • Gautier, Pieter, 1996. "Job reallocation, idiosyncratic shocks and aggregate fluctuations," Serie Research Memoranda 0032, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    • Handle: RePEc:vua:wpaper:1996-32
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    Keywords

    Business cycle; Coordination failures; Reallocation;
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    JEL classification:

    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General

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