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We present an empirical analysis of the determinants of labour cost in OECD countries, with particular reference to the impact of labour market institutions from 1960 to 1994. The main contribution of the paper is to show that labour market regulations can explain a large part of labour cost...
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, under a Nash bargain, the equilibrium wage is linear in a person-specific component, a firm-specific component, and the … posterior mean of beliefs about match quality. Second, the optimal separation policy is of the reservation wage type …) Program at the US Census Bureau. I present both fixed and mixed model specifications of the equilibrium wage function, taking …
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The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of their workers, but without explaining which firms train which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the willingness of firms to pay for general training, and...
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proliferation, the gender wage gap, the gender/happiness paradox and the widespread use of tournaments as a sorting device. …
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effects of the tariff wage under the Weimar Republic and the Nazis. The estimated equations suggest that demand shocks …, combined with nominal inertia in the labour market, were important in explaining unemployment. In addition real wage pressures … due to the political processes of wage determination were a major influence on unemployment. Negative demand shocks appear …
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model to investigate to what extent labour market reforms undertaken by the Thatcher government in the late 1930s and the introduction of a constant inflation target in 1992 might have changed the UK economic outlook if they had been introduced in the early...
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This paper embeds labor market search frictions into a New Keynesian model with financial frictions as in Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999).  The econometric estimation establishes that labor market frictions substantially improve the empirical fit of the model.  The effect of the...
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. Convergence to this growth path can be generated in two ways: a Blanchard-Katz-type error-correction mechanism in the money-wage … Phillips curve or a modified Taylor rule that is augmented by a term, which transmits increases in the wage share (real unit … labor costs) to increases in the nominal rate of interest. Thus the model is characterized by local instability of the wage …
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This paper proposes a new framework for the impulse-response analysis of business cycle transitions. A cointegrated vector autoregressive Markov-switching model is found to be a congruent representation of post-war US employment and output data. In this model some parameters change according to...
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We consider whether oil prices can account for business cycle asymmetries. We test for asymmetries based on the Markov switching autoregressive model popularized by Hamilton (1989), using the tests devised by Clements and Krolzig (2000). We select the transformation of the oil price of Lee, Ni...
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