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-run Phillips curve between inflation and unemployment and a trade-off between price distortions and output hysteresis that change … hysteresis effects on unemployment and output. Price level targeting or a Taylor-rule responding to the unemployment rate can …
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This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the...
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In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental...
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-section, or when broken down by firms’ size. We then examine whether mismatch unemployment has risen as a result of the pandemic … driving the elevated unemployment rate. Finally, we employ a novel Bayesian SVAR framework with sign restrictions to identify …
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This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data …-setting institutions. …
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is ‘involuntary’). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the ‘non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment’. We then …
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Data from the 2009 Internet Survey of the Health and Retirement Study show that many U.S. households experienced large capital losses in housing and financial wealth, and that 5% of respondents lost their job during the Great Recession. As a consequence of these shocks, many households reduced...
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In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …
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