This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … of households in response to price changes in most years. …

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 …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

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. …

hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …

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 …

model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results … suggest that the tradeoff is far from vertical. We also find that wage persistence plays a larger role than price persistence …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to … staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the price adjustments to each successive change in the money supply are never …

, unemployment, and wage employment, particularly relative to older adults. The percentage employment reductions, for example, were …