Heterogeneity and Aggregation: Implications for Labor-Market Fluctuations: Reply

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Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 2014
Volume: 104
Issue: 4
Pages: 1461-66

Authors (2)

Yongsung Chang (not in RePEc) Sun-Bin Kim (Yonsei University)

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Abstract

Takahashi (2014) has uncovered coding errors in our paper, Chang and Kim (2007)-henceforth, CK. We acknowledge and are embarrassed by these mistakes. We are grateful to Takahashi for uncovering them. While the correction decreases the volatility of the labor market wedge, we find that the main message of CK remains valid: the measured labor market wedge arises endogenously in an economy with incomplete capital markets and indivisible labor supply. For example, our model accounts for 18 percent of the volatility in the labor market wedge in the data; it was 43 percent in CK.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aecrev:v:104:y:2014:i:4:p:1461-66
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25