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Technology shocks and robust sign restrictions in a euro area SVAR

Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2004

This paper provides evidence for the impact of technology, labor supply, monetary policy and aggregate spending shocks on hours worked in the Euro area. The evidence is based on a vector autoregression identiﬁed using sign restrictions that are consistent with both sticky price and real...

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Time variation in U.S. wage dynamics

Hofmann, Boris; Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2010

This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the...

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Nominal and real wage rigidities. In theory and in Europe

Knell, Markus - 2010

In this paper I study the relation between real wage rigidity (RWR) and nominal price and wage rigidity. I show that in a standard DSGE model RWR is mainly affected by the interaction of the two nominal rigidities and not by other structural parameters. The degree of RWR is, however,...

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Can Labour Market Institutions Explain Unemployment Rates in New EU Member States?

Ederveen, Sjef; Thissen, Laura - 2004

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new … European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 … institutions in the acceding countries are less rigid than in the EU-15. Moreover, labour market institutions explain only a minor …

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