| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19600 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19600 |
| Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence | |
| Olivier Coibion; Yuriy Gorodnichenko; Dmitri Koustas | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-10-31 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations for this rising persistence. First, we argue that financial shocks do not systematically lead to more persistent unemployment than monetary policy shocks, so these cannot explain the rising persistence of unemployment. Second, monetary and fiscal policies can account for only part of the evolving unemployment persistence. Therefore, we turn to a third class of explanations: propagation mechanisms. We focus on factors consistent with four other cyclical patterns which have evolved since the early 1980s: a rising cyclicality in long-term unemployment, lower regional convergence after downturns, rising cyclicality in disability claims, and missing disinflation. These factors include declining labor mobility, changing age structures, and the decline in trust among Americans. To determine how these factors affect unemployment persistence, this paper exploits regional variation in labor market outcomes across Western Europe and North America during 1970-1990, in contrast to most previous work focusing either on cross-country variation or regional variation within countries. The results suggest that only cultural factors can account for the rising persistence of unemployment in the U.S., but the evolution in mobility and demographics over time should have more than offset the effects of culture. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Business Cycles ; Monetary Policy ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19600 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577274 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Olivier Coibion,Yuriy Gorodnichenko,Dmitri Koustas. Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence. 2013. |
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