, high-wage workers are replaced by young low-wage workers. DNWR may also lead to a positive growth in aggregate wages … because of changes in relative wages. We explore industry data for 19 OECD countries, over the period 1971–2006. We find … legislation, high union density, centralised wage setting and high inflation. …

found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …

indexation to past inflation to vary according to the monetary policy regime. We find that the extent of wage indexation is … significantly lower in an inflation targeting regime, in contrast to monetary targeting, exchange rate targeting and policy regimes …

constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … 1995 would have led to an annual increase in inflation of 2.5 percentage points if it had not been largely offset by …

compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is …

import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …

and beyond the determinants of currency invoicing (i.e., inflation rate, inflation volatility, foreign exchange market … by a drop in inflation volatility. …

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the … policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steady-state inflation and … inflation uncertainty have declined steadily since the inception of EMU, whilst short-run uncertainty has increased, mainly …

—with excess liquidity reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s. …