Persistence of Shocks and the Reallocation of Labor

Nicolas Roys

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016, vol. 22, 109-130

Abstract: This paper proposes a theoretical and quantitative analysis of the reallocation of labor across firms in response to idiosyncratic shocks of different persistence. Creating and destroying jobs is costly and workers are paid a share of the value of the marginal worker. The model predicts that employment and labor costs react differently to transitory shocks and permanent shocks. Quantitative evaluation of the model on a panel of French firms shows the model performance. Modest adjustment costs are needed to reproduce observed job reallocation and inaction rates. Removing adjustment costs leads to productivity gains of one percent at the steady-state. These gains are fifty percent larger in a economy with only transitory shocks and an order of magnitude lower in an economy with only permanent shocks. Bargaining dampens the reallocation of labor across firms leading to larger efficiency losses from adjustment costs. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Firm dynamics; Adjustment costs; Persistence of shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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