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This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings – East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show...
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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … of households in response to price changes in most years. …
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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … of households in response to price changes in most years. …
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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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perspective. The impact of inflation depends on good-specific price increases and budget shares. Budget shares for necessities (e … inflation with a relatively small behavioural component due to the preponderance of necessities among the goods with high price …This paper disentangles the distributional and welfare impact of price changes since the start of the cost of living …
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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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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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