Fiscal multipliers in a two-sector search and matching model

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Wei Jiang and Jim Malley

No 2015-67, SIRE Discussion Papers from Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of policy interventions on sectoral labour markets and the aggregate economy in a business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital-skill complementarity in production, labour markets with skilled and unskilled workers and on-the-job-learning (OJL) within and across skill types. We first find that, the model does a good job at matching the cyclical properties of sectoral employment and the wage-skill premium. We next find that vacancy subsidies for skilled and unskilled jobs lead to output multipliers which are greater than unity with OJL and less than unity without OJL. In contrast, the positive output effects from cutting skilled and unskilled income taxes are close to zero. Finally, we find that the sectoral and aggregate effects of vacancy subsidies do not depend on whether they are financed via public debt or distorting taxes.

Keywords: fiscal multipliers; sectoral labour markets; search and matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-01-25
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Working Paper: Fiscal Multipliers in a Two-Sector Search and Matching Model (2015)
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