Worker Flows and Job Flows: A Quantitative Investigation

36 Pages Posted: 9 Feb 2016

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Shigeru Fujita

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Makoto Nakajima

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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Date Written: February, 2016

Abstract

This paper studies quantitative properties of a multiple-worker firm search/matching model and investigates how worker transition rates and job flow rates are interrelated. We show that allowing for job-to-job transitions in the model is essential to simultaneously account for the cyclical features of worker transition rates and job flow rates. Important to this result are the distinctions between the job creation rate and the hiring rate and between the job destruction rate and the layoff rate. In the model without job-to-job transitions, these distinctions essentially disappear, thus making it impossible to simultaneously replicate the cyclical features of both labor market flows.

Keywords: Job flows, Worker flows, Multiple-worker firm, search and matching

JEL Classification: E24, E32, J63, J64

Suggested Citation

Fujita, Shigeru and Nakajima, Makoto, Worker Flows and Job Flows: A Quantitative Investigation (February, 2016). FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 16-3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2729663

Shigeru Fujita (Contact Author)

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia ( email )

Ten Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1574
United States

Makoto Nakajima

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia ( email )

Ten Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1574
United States

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