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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the nature of this relationship across Chinese regions. We argue that this may reflect the different progress in transition across regions, in line with the Aghion-Blanchard model of...
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We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil, which experienced a large decrease in earnings inequality while its real minimum wage increased from 1996-2012, we document that the inequality decrease was bottom-driven yet...
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The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...
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inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an … inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a conflict between monetary policy and discretionary fiscal policy …
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compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is … steered to uses they are keen to avoid. -- competitiveness ; inflation ; realignment ; Keynesian policy …
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The standard loss function counts both positive and negative deviations from the output and inflation targets as losses …. But if the sample period is long enough, then output growth in excess of the target, and often also inflation rates that …
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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We study the link between expected inflation and wages using novel panel data from German firms and employees. We find … that pass-through—the percentage point change in wage growth given a one percentage point change in expected inflation … margin, expected inflation has little effect on additional wage negotiations. …
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linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the "Great Inflation", nominal wages moved in the same direction as … the (required) adjustment of real wages, and in the opposite direction of the price response. During the "Great Inflation … increasing inflation volatility. Using a standard DSGE model, we show that these stylized facts, in particular the estimated …
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In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
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