Welfare under friction and uncertainty: General equilibrium evaluation of temporary employment in the U.S
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Keywords
Labor market misallocation; Temporary employment; Firing costs; Idiosyncratic uncertainty; General equilibrium; Heterogeneous agents;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
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