02428cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017602 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475595864 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Epstein, Brendan. Financial Disruptions and the Cyclical Upgrading of Labor / Brendan Epstein, Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Andres Gonzalez Gomez. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (45 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Amid total factor productivity (TFP) shocks job-to-job flows amplify the volatility of unemployment, but the aggregate implications of job-to-job flows amid financial shocks are less understood. To develop such understanding we model a general equilibrium labor-search framework that incorporates on-the-job (OTJ) search and distinctly accounts for the differential impact of TFP and financial shocks. Surprisingly, we find that the interaction of OTJ search with financial shocks is sufficiently different from its interaction with TFP shocks so that, under standard calibrations, our model generates aggregate dynamics exceedingly in line with the behavior of key U.S. macro data across several decades and in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis as well. Importantly, as in the data, the model yields relatively high volatilities of consumption, labor income, and unemployment. As such, our work contributes to resolving two limitations of current general equilibrium labor-search theory: under standard calibrations models without OTJ search generate implausibly low unemployment volatility, while models with OTJ search generate unemployment volatility closer to the data but at the expense of implausibly low consumption and labor-income volatility. Mode of access: Internet Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan. Gonzalez Gomez, Andres. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/131 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/131/001.2017.issue-131-en.xml IMF e-Library