Essays on Asymmetric Labor-Market Fluctuations and Economic Growth

<p>This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first essay, ``The Asymmetric Cyclical Behavior of the U.S. Labor Market,'' I develop a search-and-matching model with endogenous job destruction and heterogeneous workers (in skill/productivity) that accounts for the asymmetry ex...

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Main Author: Ferraro, Domenico
Other Authors: Jaimovich, Nir
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8699