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The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies the compartmentalisation … of macroeconomics. While one branch of the literature models inflation dynamics and estimates the unemployment rate … compatible with inflation stability, another one determines the real economic factors that drive the natural rate of unemployment …
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This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of quot;frictional growth … policy has not only persistent, but permanent real effects, giving rise to a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. We … the US unemployment and inflation trajectories during the nineties …
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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical … studies for Japan, Sweden and the United States, but contradicts the empirical studies for Australia, Romania and Turkey …
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The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi … causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main …
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interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …
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inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …
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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-unemployment …
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The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has … remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects … effects. If such structural factors are at work they would result in a higher underlying natural or nonaccelerating inflation …
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peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the … consumer price inflation rate …
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