TY - JOUR A1 - Christiano, Lawrence J. A1 - Eichenbaum, Martin S. A1 - Trabandt, Mathias T1 - Why is unemployment so countercyclical? T2 - Review of economic dynamics N2 - We argue that wage inertia plays a pivotal role in allowing empirically plausible variants of the standard search and matching model to account for the large countercyclical response of unemployment to shocks. KW - Unemployment volatility KW - Wage inertia Y1 - 2021 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63094 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-630948 SN - 1096-6099 VL - 41.2021 SP - 4 EP - 37 PB - ScienceDirect CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER -