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implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.We proceed in two steps. We first leave … firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence of labor … market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …
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We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of inflation and unemployment dynamics. Our main result is that … wage cyclicality from incentives neither affects the slope of the Phillips curve for prices nor dampens unemployment … dynamics. The impulse response of unemployment in economies with flexible, procyclical incentive pay is first-order equivalent …
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The official unemployment rate has become an inadequate measure of labor market conditions. This poses a major … unemployment rate by weighing part-time workers with 62.5%, the proportion of the time they work relative to full-time workers. We … provide new monthly estimates of the unemployment rate for the period 1994-2019 and find that their average during this 25 …
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(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …
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