Table 11:
Calibrated Parameters
Parameter | Value | Description |
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A. Outside the Model | ||
β | 0.996 | Discount factor |
bD | 0.9μD | Value of home production, disabled (90% of average productivity) |
bND | 0.75μND | Value of home production, non-disabled (75% of average productivity) |
𝜂 | 0.5 | Nash-bargaining parameter of worker |
B. Within the Model | ||
κ | 8.257 | Vacancy-posting cost |
γ | 0.981 | Elasticity of p (𝜃) w.r.t. market tightness θ |
δ | 0.006 | Exogenous job destruction rate |
𝜙D | 0.013 | Probability of redrawing productivity, disabled |
𝜙ND | 0.078 | Probability of redrawing productivity, non-disabled |
μD | 1.000 | Average productivity, disabled (normalization) |
μND | 1.923 | Average productivity, non-disabled |
0.231 | Variance of productivity distribution | |
CF,D | 12.963 | Firing cost of the disabled under the ADA |
CH,D | 0.828 | Hiring cost of the disabled under the ADA |
Note: Table 11 reports the values of the calibrated parameters. Part A reports parameters calibrated a priori, and part B reports the parameters calibrated within the model jointly to match the benchmark economy (without policy) and the changes in the equilibrium transition rates between the benchmark economy and the economy under the ADA.