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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
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model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
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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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In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production … function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these ….S. These results are used to explain the declining path of the labor income share, common to both economies, and their …
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We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and …
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We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy decisions. We show that the … unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to frictional growth, a phenomenon that encapsulates the interplay between … empirical analysis and find that the NRU explains only 33% of the unemployment variation, while frictional growth accounts for …
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' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …
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This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi …-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital accumulation equations. Financialization … appears as a key determinant of capital accumulation which, in turn, is the transmission channel towards its unemployment …
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unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a … connection to the wage bargaining system. Amid the absence of effective labor market institutions to make rigidities less …
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This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that …
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