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We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
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not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment. …
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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. …
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In the wake of the global energy crisis, many European countries used energy price controls to fight inflation and to …. In addition, during the energy crisis 2022 inflation rates rose dramatically and real wages dropped more than in any …
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The structural theory of green transformation acknowledges the complexity of the transformation process and suggests a state-led approach with green industrial policy at its core. In contrast, the market-fundamentalist approach to the transformation problem relies on carbon pricing and the...
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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 …
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Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is …
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inflation and measures welfare changes using the compensating variation and equivalent incomes in a cross-national comparative … perspective. The impact of inflation depends on good-specific price increases and budget shares. Budget shares for necessities (e … necessities has resulted in higher inflation in poorer countries. Counter to the media narrative, the distributional impact is …
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What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million …, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While … inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong …
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Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
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