Endogenous growth, skill obsolescence and output hysteresis in a new Keynesian model with unemployment
- The authors embed human capital-based endogenous growth into a New-Keynesian model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great Recession: a decline in productivity growth, the relative stability of inflation despite a pronounced fall in output (the "missing disinflation puzzle"), and a permanent gap between output and the pre-crisis trend output. In the model, lower aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders learning-by-doing, which slows down human capital accumulation, feeding back into even fewer vacancies than justified by the demand shock alone. These feedback channels mitigate the disinflationary effect of the demand shock while amplifying its contractionary effect on output. The temporary growth slowdown translates into output hysteresis (permanently lower output and labor productivity).
Author: | Wolfgang LechthalerGND, Mewael F. TesfaselassieGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-564462 |
URL: | https://www.imfs-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IMFS_WP/IMFS_WP_149.pdf |
Parent Title (English): | Working paper series / Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability ; 149 |
Series (Serial Number): | Working paper series / Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (149) |
Publisher: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ., Inst. for Monetary and Financial Stability |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/01/19 |
Tag: | endogenous growth; monetary policy; nominal rigidity; output hysteresis; search and matching; unemployment |
Page Number: | 37 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 475489071 |
Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) | |
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |