' 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 …

economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … demand and supply shocks are opposite to those of the standard case and result in a co-movement of unemployment and … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that uctuations in the total …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …. -- Sticky wages ; staggered Nash bargaining ; trend inflation ; unemployment ; search and matching …

-the-job search makes such wage competition less likely, reducing expected labor costs and lowering inflation. This model explains why … inflation has remained subdued over the last decade, which is a conundrum for general equilibrium models and Phillips curves …

. Positively, we find that inflation and unemployment differentials strongly depend on the underlying labor market structures …How do asymmetric labor market institutions affect the volatility of innovation and unemployment differentials in a … union model with unemployment, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. The model provides a rigorous but tractable …

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … on inflation volatility, which can also be rationalized by our theoretical model. …

and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …