Labor Market Institutions, productivity and Business Cycle: An application to Italy

Abstract

We develop a New Keynesian DSGE model with labor market frictions to assess to what extent changes in labor market institutions (LMI) affect the cyclicality and dynamics of productivity and unemployment. We also document by how much LMI account for business cycle fluctuations in Italy.

Josué Diwambuena
Josué Diwambuena
Postdoctoral Fellow in Macroeconomics