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In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
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found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …
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constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … 1995 would have led to an annual increase in inflation of 2.5 percentage points if it had not been largely offset by …
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linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the "Great Inflation", nominal wages moved in the same direction as … the (required) adjustment of real wages, and in the opposite direction of the price response. During the "Great Inflation … as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be …
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By using a model of trade union behaviour Grüner (2010) argues that the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary centralization lets the central bank react less flexibly to...
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This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special … Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of inflation rates. By contrast, we find that the initial price level and … regulated prices strongly affect inflation outcomes in a nonlinear manner and that the extension of Engel's Law may hold during …
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, high-wage workers are replaced by young low-wage workers. DNWR may also lead to a positive growth in aggregate wages … because of changes in relative wages. We explore industry data for 19 OECD countries, over the period 1971–2006. We find … legislation, high union density, centralised wage setting and high inflation. …
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found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …
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indexation to past inflation to vary according to the monetary policy regime. We find that the extent of wage indexation is … significantly lower in an inflation targeting regime, in contrast to monetary targeting, exchange rate targeting and policy regimes …
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% lower past average wages and hired workers with 16% lower past average wages. Conditional upon bargaining, workers hired by …
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