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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600-311,000, and …
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unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …
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increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages …
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-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, labour force participation, hours and wages in …
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This paper investigates the border between formal employment, shadow employment, and unemployment in an equilibrium … employment is correlated with unemployment, and it is tolerated because the repression of shadow activity increases unemployment … the model. The paper suggests also that policies aimed at reducing the shadow economy are likely to increase unemployment. …
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This Paper studies the border between shadow employment and unemployment. It argues that the two macroeconomic … the labour market trade-off implied by ‘shadow reducing policies’, it suggests that economies with low unemployment … perform original empirical work on the border between employment, unemployment and inactivity, and we find that Italian shadow …
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