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This article is based on the results of two company surveys - the first was conducted in 2007, before the recession 2008/2009 hit Austria, and the second was conducted in 2009 shortly after the trough of it. We analyse firms’ reactions to the crisis and focus on their labour market relevant...
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learning model appears better suited to capture the gradual wage adjustment of Germany during the 2000s and the one that …
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This article is based on the results of two company surveys - the first was conducted in 2007, before the recession 2008/2009 hit Austria, and the second was conducted in 2009 shortly after the trough of it. We analyse firms’ reactions to the crisis and focus on their labour market relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316130
This paper provides evidence on the role of non-base wage components as a channel for firms to adjust labour costs in the event of adverse shocks. It uses data from a firm-level survey for 25 European countries that covers the period 2010-2013. We find that firms subject to nominal wage...
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It has been well established that the wages of individual workers react little, especially downwards, to shocks that hit their employer. This paper presents new evidence from a unique survey of firms across Europe on the prevalence of downward wage rigidity in both real and nominal terms. We...
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All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to … paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a …
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All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to … paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770794
deviate from the strict inflation targeting since the policy maker faces a typical unemployment/inflation trade-off. In this … matches. Hence optimal monetary policy features unemployment targeting along with inflation targeting … context and unlike a standard New Keynesian model stabilizing inflation is not sufficient to stabilize the marginal cost …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with … deterministically varying coefficients and find that there is a profound difference in the responses of unemployment and inflation to …
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inflation and the extent of real wage rigidity but that these effects depend on the definition of reference norms (e.g. how …
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