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The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The …. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is … independent of changes in labor demand taxes and unemployment income …
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The paper presents a general equilibrium framework for short-run macroeconomic analysis in a developing country context where controls on interest rates and foreign exchange restrictions lead to the emergence of informal financial markets. The complexity of the model precludes an analytical...
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The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT) emerging market economies. The paper uses a particularly simple and flexible general equilibrium model structure that can be amended to account for various phenomena that...
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This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...
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This paper assesses Romania’s Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and a Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion. Romania’s macroeconomic performance continued to be favorable, but slippages in wage policy and privatization delayed the completion of the third review....
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In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …
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methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …
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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines inflation and wage dynamics in Finland. The paper discusses the data set used (quarterly data covering from 1975 to 1995) and the statistical properties of the relevant time series. It presents the model and the empirical estimates,...
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-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are … posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when we get two wages, and which wages are actually posted. For an example with K … combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …
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, we cannot get more than two wages. We explore several other models, including one combining ex ante and ex post …
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