The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … high inflation to a low-growth period with exceptionally low inflation since the early 1990s. We show based on a stylized …

increases from the tradable to the non-tradable sector and to cause real wages to increase beyond productivity increases. Panel …

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. …

elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …