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Wage-Price Dynamics and Structural Reforms in Japan
Porcellacchia, Davide - 2016
Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the … role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance … reforms may contribute to Japan's short-run goal of reflating the economy. It finds that boosting inflation with structural …
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Fiscal Policy Implications for Labor Market Outcomes in Middle-Income Countries
Lemus, Antonio - 2015
Many governments have initiated public employment programs or expanded the existing ones in response to high unemployment. However, in many middle-income countries, a relatively large government coexists with persistently high unemployment. This paper explores the question of whether public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036636
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Inflation Dynamics in South Africa : The Role of Thresholds, Exchange Rate Pass-through and Inflation Expectations on Policy Trade-offs
Ndou, Eliphas - 2017
This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of South African inflation dynamics, using a variety of techniques including counterfactual analysis. The authors elaborate the roles in inflation of thresholds, nonlinearities and asymmetries introduced by economic conditions such as the size...
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Economic Policies since the Global Financial Crisis
Arestis, Philip (ed.); Sawyer, Malcolm (ed.) - 2017
This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour...
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Designing the European Model
Honkapohja, Seppo (ed.); Westermann, Frank (ed.) - 2009
This book examines existing problems in the European economy, focusing on labour markets, including labour market reform and outsourcing, as well as macroeconomic issues, such as macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro area and convergence and divergence in economic growth in the EU.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106189
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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets, and the Poor
Blejer, Mario I. - 2013
In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor`s work effort. The literature, however,...
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A Fiscal Job? An Analysis of Fiscal Policy and the Labor Market
Bova, Elva - 2015
This paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on employment through the lenses of Okun's Law. Looking at the panel of OECD countries over the past three decades, we find that fiscal policy can affect employment beyond the impact it is traditionally assumed to exert through the output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028691
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Monetary Policy Under Labor Market Power
Burya, Anastasia; Mano, Rui C.; Timmer, Yannick; Weber, Anke - 2022
Using the near universe of online vacancy postings in the U.S., we study the interaction between labor market power and monetary policy. We show empirically that labor market power amplifies the labor demand effects of monetary policy, while not disproportionately affecting wage growth. A search...
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Monetary Policy and the German Unemployment Problem in Macroeconomic Models : Theory and Evidence
Gottschalk, Jan (contributor) - 2005
Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past forty years. It shows that in recent years a convergence has taken place, with modern models embodying a Keynesian transmission mechanism, monetarist policy implication, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014014221
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The Changing Japanese Labor Market : Theory and Evidence
Kitagawa, Akiomi; Ohta, Souichi; Teruyama, Hiroshi - 2018
Japanese Labor Market -- 5 Duration Dependence of Job-Finding Rates in Japan -- Index. …
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