News and labor market dynamics in the data and in matching models

This paper uses a VAR model estimated with Bayesian methods to identify the effect of productivity news shocks on labor market variables by imposing that they are orthogonal to current technology but they explain future observed technology. In the aftermath of a positive news shock, unemployment fa...

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Main Authors: Zanetti, F, Theodoridis, K
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2014