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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …
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money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …. -- inflation ; unemployment ; search-matching ; Friedman rule …
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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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