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positive long-run relation between inflation and output (and employment), for low inflation rates. This Phillips curve relation … 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 …
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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 …
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not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment. …
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An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …
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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
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We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price...
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output … and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a … threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …
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change in competition. Higher substitutability increases welfare, output and productivity because resources shift towards the …
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We model empirically the role of labor market institutions in affecting the response of inflation to labor market and …-country differences in inflation adjustment for the "sheltered" (non-trading) sector; the effects in the "exposed" (trading) sector are …) flatten the Phillips curve in both sectors. More active LM policies also reduce the persistence of inflation. However, but …
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