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. Furthermore, they fail to allow for quantity rationing and to model unemployment as a catastrophic event. The macroeconomics based …
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model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
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inflation and a permanent reduction in the level of unemployment. In short, we derive a microfounded long-run downward …
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staggered nominal wage bargaining. We find that the estimated natural rate of unemployment is consistent with the NBER … description of the U.S. business cycle, and that the inflation/unemployment trade-off facing monetary policymakers is … unemployment gaps are more efficient than rules responding to output or unemployment growth rates, also in the presence of …
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Labour market frictions are not the only possible source of high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by … determination of equilibrium unemployment in the presence of credit market frictions both with exogenous and endogenous wages. We …
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those that affect the long-run unemployment rate. …
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The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al. (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
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Using data from the 1981 Family Expenditure Survey we estimate a logit model for the choice between unemployment and … characteristics of the households in the survey and unemployment rates in the industries in which the households usually work. The … influence of tax-benefit reforms on unemployment using an equation that attaches a moderately strong prior belief to the theory. …
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previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean … unemployment. Taking account of the mean reversion in unemployment we find no detrimental effect of immigration. Similar results …
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elasticities for those who experienced unemployment during the previous year and those on higher incomes; for average employed men …
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