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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …
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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 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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in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …
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