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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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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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We study the effects of globalisation on the slope of the New Keynesian Phillips curve for CPI inflation, based on a … generally has a significant positive effect on inflation, but that this effect decreases as integration in the global economy …
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economies, using dynamic cross-country panel estimation of New-Keynesian Phillips curves. We find that inflation expectations …We study the effects of professionals’ survey-based inflation expectations on inflation for a large number of 36 OECD … have a significantly positive effect on inflation. We also find that the effect of inflation expectations on inflation is …
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We study how domestic and global output gaps affect CPI inflation. We use a New-Keynesian Phillips curve framework …1-2017Q4 period. We find broadly that both global and domestic output gaps are significant drivers of inflation both in … output gaps on inflation. …
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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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This paper examines the degree of persistence in UK inflation by applying long-memory methods to historical data that … evolution over time. On the whole, the evidence suggests that the degree of persistence of UK inflation has been relatively … stable following the Bretton Woods period, despite the adoption of different monetary regimes. The estimation of an …
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When inflation picks up, central banks are most concerned that the de-anchoring of inflation expectations and the … ignition of wage-price spirals will trigger inflation dynamic instability. However, such scenarios do not materialize in the … updated according to the actual inflation process, with indexed wages, and persistent inflation shocks. In these cases, a more …
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The recent surge in inflation led many unions and firms to alter their bargaining and wage-setting policies. Using … during periods of high and low inflation. We find state dependence along the extensive and intensive margins: the average … implications of state-dependent wage setting for the long-run effects of trend inflation, the transmission of monetary policy …
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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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