Are Firing Costs Important for Business Cycles? Lessons from Bulgaria (1999–2018)

Aleksandar Vasilev

Managing Global Transitions, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1 (Spring), 3-17

Abstract: We introduce firing costs into a real-business-cycle setup augmented with a detailed government sector. We calibrate the model to Bulgarian data for the period following the introduction of the currency board arrangement (1999–2018). We investigate the importance of such labour market frictions for cyclical fluctuations in Bulgaria. Firing costs decrease employment volatility and pro-cyclicality, where both effects come at odds with data. Besides those, we do not find other important effects of firing costs for business cycle fluctuations in Bulgaria.

Keywords: business cycle fluctuations; labour markets; firing costs; Bulgaria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-6935.20.3-17

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