Aggregate Employment, Real Business Cycles, and Superior Information

Martin Boileau and Michel Normandin ()

No 55, Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers from CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal

Abstract: We test whether dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium artificial economies associated with several labor market institutions provide an adequate characterization of aggregate employment volatility and dynamics. Our test is robust to possible misspecifications about the information set used by economic agents to forecast future events. Accounting for the agents' superior information, we find that the divisible labor, indivisible labor, and labor hoarding structures replicate employment volatility, in contrast to the nominal wage contracts and labor adjustment costs structures. Also, the labor hoarding structure provides a substantially better account of employment dynamics than the other labor market structures.

Keywords: Labor Market Institutions; Employment Dynamics and Volatility. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E24 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1997-12
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