Worker Flows and Job Flows: A Quantitative Investigation

Supersedes Working Paper 13-9/R — Worker Flows and Job Flows: A Quantitative Investigation.

The authors show that allowing for job-to-job transitions in the model is essential to simultaneously account for the cyclical features of worker transition rates and job flow rates. Important to this result are the distinctions between the job creation rate and the hiring rate and between the job destruction rate and the layoff rate. In the model without job-to-job transitions, these distinctions essentially disappear, thus making it impossible to simultaneously replicate the cyclical features of both labor market flows.