In this paper, we examine a version of the Sargent (1978) and Kennan (1979) labor demand model under the assumption that the forcing processes are nonstationary. We derive a simple model of dynamic labor demand and highlight the important econometric and time-series implications of the...

The menu-cost models of price adjustment developed by Ball and Mankiw (1994; 1995) predict that short-run movements in inflation should be positively related to the skewness and the variance of the distribution of disaggregated relative-price shocks in each period. We test these predictions on...