| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28663 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28663 |
| The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market | |
| Victoria Gregory; Guido Menzio; David G. Wiczer | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-12 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Based on patterns of employment transitions, we identify three different types of workers in the US labor market: α's β's and γ's. Workers of type α make up over half of all workers, are most likely to remain on the same job for more than 2 years and, when they become unemployed, typically find a new job within 1 quarter. Workers of type γ comprise less than one-fifth of workers, have a low probability of staying on the same job for more than 2 years and, when they become unemployed, face a high probability of remaining jobless for more than 1 year. Workers of type β are in between αs and γ's. The earnings losses caused by displacement are relatively small and transitory for α-workers, while they are large and persistent for γ-workers. During the Great Recession, excess unemployment for α-workers rose by little and was reabsorbed quickly; unemployment for γ-workers rose by 20 percentage points and was not reabsorbed 4 years after its peak. We use a search-theoretic model of the labor market to rationalize the different patterns of employment transitions across types. The model naturally explains both the variation in the consequences of job displacement across types, and the variation in the dynamics of unemployment during the Great Recession. Our view is that several puzzling micro and macro phenomena about the labor market are driven by the behavior of the small group of γ-workers. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28663 |
| 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/586337 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Victoria Gregory,Guido Menzio,David G. Wiczer. The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market. 2021. |
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| w28663.pdf（512KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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