Macroprudential Policy and Labor Market Dynamics in Emerging Economies

By Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Andres Gonzalez

April 3, 2015

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Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, and Andres Gonzalez. Macroprudential Policy and Labor Market Dynamics in Emerging Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

Emerging economies have high shares of self-employed individuals running owner-only firms who, in contrast to many salaried firms, have little access to formal financing and therefore rely on informal financing (input credit) from other firms. We build a small open economy real business cycle model with labor and financial market frictions where formal credit markets, informal credit, and the structure of the labor market interact. The model successfully replicates the cyclical behavior of sectoral employment, formal credit, and the main macroeconomic aggregates in emerging economies. We show that a countercyclical macroprudential policy that reduces formal credit fluctuations has positive though quantitatively limited effects on consumption and output volatility, but generates larger unemployment fluctuations in response to productivity shocks; the same policy increases labor market and aggregate volatility in response to net worth shocks. The link between input credit and the labor market structure---key for capturing the cyclical dynamics of labor and credit markets in the data---plays a crucial role for these results.

Subject: Employment, Financial sector policy and analysis, Labor, Labor markets, Macroprudential policy, Self-employment, Unemployment

Keywords: Business cycle, Business cycles, Capital producer, Capital relationship, Credit market, Employment, Financial frictions, Global, Labor market, Labor markets, Labor search frictions, Macroprudential policy, Matching firm, Purchased capital, Rate equation, Rental rate, Rental rate equation, Salaried firm, Search cost, Self-employment, Self-employment sector, Supply condition, Total output, Unemployment, WP

Publication Details

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48
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Working Paper No. 2015/078
Stock No:

WPIEA2015078
ISBN:

9781475563641
ISSN:

1018-5941

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