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-run concept like the natural rate of unemployment. We examine what effect uncertainty has on the use of NAIRU in policy …
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Expanding on an approach suggested by Ashenfelter (1984), we extend the Phillips curve to an open economy and exploit panel data to estimate the textbook 'expectations augmented' Phillips curve with a market-based and observable measure of inflation expectations. We develop this measure using...
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examine U.S. time series and find that, as the model predicts, unemployment fluctuations are associated with both inflation …
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We adopt a time series approach to investigate the historical relation between unemployment, life expectancy, and … and race. We find that shocks to unemployment are followed by statistically significant increases in mortality rates and … and life expectancy. We estimate the size of the COVID-19-related unemployment to be between 2 and 5 times larger than the …
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We study how trade linkages affect the conduct of monetary policy in a two-country model with heterogeneous firms, endogenous producer entry, and labor market frictions. We show that the ability of the model to replicate key empirical regularities following trade integration---synchronization of...
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This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer's (2009) model in … which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …
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model labor market frictions and unemployment explicitly. The present paper describes some of the essential ingredients and …
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This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and low unemployment versus high tax and high … unemployment) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large temporary shocks initiate … possible that the transition to the high-unemployment steady state after a negative shock can be avoided if the government …
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This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling's interwar experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defense of the currency and show that it …
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. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …
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