Regional Labor Market Response to Macroeconomic Shocks: A Look at Great Britain, Japan and the United States

区域劳动力市场对宏观经济冲击的反应：英国、日本和美国的情况

• 批准号: 9012706
• 负责人: Edward Montgomery
• 金额: $ 0.74万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-07-15 至 1990-09-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9012706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Regional; Labor; Market; Response; Macroeconomic

In this project, the PI plans to examine regional labor markets in Japan, Great Britain and the United States and their response to macroeconomic shocks. He first plans to investigate adjustment of real wages, unemployment or migration rates in response to shocks. The effect of cultural and institutional factors that has an impact on labor market behavior will be mitigated by doing comparisons across regions within the same country. The second part of the analysis will be an attempt to cast some light on the causes of these differences in response patterns. The PI will conduct some preliminary tests for the causes of the regional differentials by examining the roles of unions, housing markets, industry structure, education or skill differentials and other factors. After isolating which hypothesis appear to be most promising, he intends to develop a full proposal and test a theoretical model about why regional markets may vary in their responses to these shocks. The investigator plans to link this work to current research on efficiency wages and insider-outsider models of the labor market which have been used to explain aggregate unemployment and real wage movements.

在这个项目中，PI计划研究日本、英国和美国的区域劳动力市场及其对宏观经济冲击的反应。他首先计划调查实际工资、失业率或移民率在应对冲击时的调整情况。文化和制度因素对劳动力市场行为的影响将通过在同一国家的不同地区进行比较来减轻。分析的第二部分将试图阐明这些反应模式差异的原因。指数将通过审查工会、住房市场、工业结构、教育或技能差异以及其他因素的作用，对造成地区差异的原因进行一些初步检验。在分离出最有希望的假设之后，他打算提出一个完整的建议，并测试一个理论模型，以解释为什么区域市场对这些冲击的反应可能会有所不同。研究者计划将这项工作与目前关于效率工资和劳动力市场内部-外部模型的研究联系起来，这些模型已被用于解释总失业率和实际工资变动。