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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
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distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment … and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
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-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …
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money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers’ bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate. …
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hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …
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chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation-unemployment …
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model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
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contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …
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not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment. …This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in …, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the ratio of total demand to total supply on this market. When prices are at …
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