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general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price …
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This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … job creation remains low making the return to a low unemployment rate impossible. The paper shows that in some cases …
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capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by self-fulÞlling belief, characterised by unemployment persistence. A …
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This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem’s Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in...
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framework. We find evidence for a reaction of wage growth to unemployment and productivity growth. However, due to unemployment …, we find that part of the heterogeneity in real wage flexibility and unemployment might be related to differences in the …
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This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible...
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This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence suggests...
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
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flows. Similarly, countries with higher unemployment benefits and more coordinated wage bargaining systems are characterised …
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