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Living arrangements and labor market volatility of young workers

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  • Dyrda, Sebastian
  • Kaplan, Greg
  • Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor

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Household size is countercyclical, mainly because of young people moving into or delaying departure from the parental home. Those living in older households earn less and have more volatile hours than their peers living alone. We pose a theory of household formation and labor choice over the business cycle. Young people decide where to live depending on their wage, taste for living within the old household, and implicit transfers received. Our theory accounts for the bulk of the contribution of the household's size volatility to the volatility of the aggregate hours. Including people with varying living arrangements yields an implied aggregate, or macro, Frisch elasticity around 70 percent larger than the assumed micro elasticity.

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  • Dyrda, Sebastian & Kaplan, Greg & Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor, 2024. "Living arrangements and labor market volatility of young workers," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:dyncon:v:169:y:2024:i:c:s0165188924001507
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2024.104958
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    Keywords

    Business cycles; Household formation; Aggregate risk; Elasticity of labor supply;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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