rates on domestic inflation, which may have contributed to differences in policy stances during the boom in commodity prices …, they cannot explain them all.<P>Réponse de l'inflation aux chocs récents : Les pays du G7 diffèrent-ils les uns des autres … certain nombre de différences dans l'impact estimé des prix à l'importation des produits de base et des taux de change sur l'inflation …

, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age …

States, the large unemployment gap could also keep wage inflation under pressure despite a flattening Phillips curve. These … productivity gaps, except in the United States where it essentially resulted from a large increase in the unemployment gap. As … more weight on alternative indicators of inflation pressure such as wage settlements, trends in unit labour costs and a …

reduced Phillips curve equation (linking inflation to the unemployment gap) by means of a Kalman filter. The overall limited …The financial crisis has resulted in a substantial increase in unemployment in the OECD. This paper shows that this … increase has reversed the reduction in structural unemployment which has been estimated to have occurred in most OECD countries …

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

The global recession is likely to results in higher structural unemployment for some time in many OECD countries. This … paper assesses how the shock to aggregate unemployment as a result of the economic crisis may be transmitted to structural … unemployment through hysteresis effects that occur through the rise in long-term unemployment. The estimated increase in structural …