not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment. …

This paper provides a new explanation of why inflation is sluggish in response to aggregate demand shocks and why … rationale for a prolonged inverse relation between inflation and unemployment. The paper suggests that the interaction of … inflation persistence and unemployment persistence may offer a possible explanation of high and prolonged European unemployment. …

chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation …

An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …

contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …

occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …

on inflation; b) introducing growth generating mechanisms. …