Christina Patterson

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for the post-recession stagnation in labor productivity in the UK and finds that if jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where productivity is relatively low, hires are concentrated in the wrong sectors, and the postrecession recovery in aggregate productivity can be slow, this mechanism can explain up to two thirds of the deviations from trend-growth in UK labor productivity.

TL;DR: This article examined the cyclical behavior of aggregate job search effort using time series and cross-state variation and found that it is countercyclical, with about half of the counter cyclical movement explained by a cyclical shift in the observable characteristics of the unemployed.

TL;DR: This paper studied non-employed workers' job search behavior and analyzed how search behavior changes over the business cycle, showing that job search intensity can either be procyclical or countercyclical depending on various factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the impact of various types of network structures on the performance of macroeconomic policies and their optimal targeting. And they derived estimable formulae for the multipliers and showed how network structures determine their size.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed micro panel data from the U.S. Economic Census since 1982 and international sources and document empirical patterns to assess a new interpretation of the fall in the labor share based on the rise of "superstar firms".