The Slow Job Recovery in a Macro Model of Search and Recruiting Intensity

Zheng Liu and Sylvain Leduc

No 1397, 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Despite steady declines in the unemployment rate and increases in the job openings rate after the Great Recession, the hiring rate in the United States has lagged behind. A significant gap remains between the actual job filling rate and that predicted from the standard labor search model. To examine the forces behind the slow job recovery, we generalize the standard labor search model to incorporate endogenous variations in search intensity and recruiting intensity. Our model features a vacancy creation cost, which implies that firms rely on variations in both the number of vacancies and recruiting intensity to respond to aggregate shocks, in contrast to the textbook model with costless vacancy creation and thus constant recruiting intensity. Cyclical variations in search and recruiting intensity drive a wedge into the matching function even absent exogenous changes in match efficiency. Our estimated model suggests that fluctuations in search and recruiting intensity help substantially bridge the gap between the actual and model-predicted job filling rates in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Date: 2016
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