consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …

alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …

paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …

This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause …

differences in labor market institutions across the same set of countries. It does that by using a DSGE model for a currency area … with sticky prices and labor market frictions. We show that differences in labor market institutions account well for … cyclical inflation differentials. The proposed mechanism is a supply side one in which differences in labor market institutions …