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Can a matching model explain the long-run increase in Canada's unemployment rate?
Abstract: We construct a simple general equilibrium model of unemployment and calibrate it to the Canadian economy. Job creation and destruction are endogenous. In this model, we consider several potential factors which could contribute to the long-run increase in the Canadian unemployment rate: a more generous unemployment insurance system, higher layoff costs, higher distortionary taxes, and a slower rate of productivity growth. We find that in the model economy the impact of all of these factors on the unemployment rate is small.
Keywords: Unemployment; Econometric models;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Part of Series: Working Paper
Publication Date: 1998
Number: 98-02