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This paper reviews recent approaches to modelling the labour market, and assesses their implications for inflation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modelling set-ups:...
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that long-term unemployment is only weakly related to inflation depends on the assumption of linearity in the Phillips … curve. Specifically, once convexity is allowed for during the estimation process, long-term unemployment appears to have a … significant negative influence on wage inflation, whereas in a linear Phillips curve model it is only the short-term unemployment …
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We estimate a New Keynesian model with matching frictions and nominal wage rigidities on UK data. We are able to identify important structural parameters, recover the unobservable shocks that have affected the UK economy since 1971 and study the transmission mechanism. With matching frictions,...
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fluctuations of vacancies and unemployment in our model can replicate those observed in the US data, with labour market tightness … for the new hires and the calibration is consistent with the estimated elasticity of unemployment to unemployment benefits …
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When workers are exposed to human capital depreciation during periods of unemployment, hiring affects the unemployment … during unemployment into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model with search frictions in the labour market leads to the …
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Skill erosion during unemployment was of particular concern as unemployment duration increased in the Great Recession … unemployment pool’s skill composition, and hence the output produced by other firms' new hires. As a consequence, job creation is …
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We find that capital renting makes up one fifth of US capital expenditures, and it increases during downturns. Further, we present cross-country evidence that output losses after financial crises are smaller where renting is more prevalent. To understand these findings, we build a general...
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analyse the size and cyclicality of the flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. I also examine job-to-job flows … unemployment rate. Although the job-finding rate has been more relevant over the past ten years, the job-separation rate was …
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The behaviour of labour productivity in the United Kingdom since the onset of the recession in early 2008 constitutes a puzzle. Over four years after the recession began labour productivity is still below its previous peak level. This paper considers the hypothesis that economic capacity can be...
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