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Phillips curves and unemployment dynamics : a critique and a holistic perspective

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2006

"The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies that these phenomena can be analysed by separate branches of economics. The macro literature tries to explain inflation dynamics and estimates the NAIRU. The labour macro literature tries to explain...

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An incentive theory of matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

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Commuting, wages and bargaining power

Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

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Layoff costs and efficiency with asymmetric information

Delacroix, Alain; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

Wage determination under asymmetric information generates inefficiencies due to excess turnover. Severance pay and layoff taxes can improve efficiency. We show that inefficient separations can even be fully removed with fixed separation taxes in the case where the relevant private information is...

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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The macroeconomics of the labor market : three fundamental views

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2006

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged adjustment view; and (iii) the hysteresis view. While … problems faced by these conceptions in explaining the diversity of labor market experiences across the OECD labor markets. We …

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Inflation persistence and the Phillips curve revisited

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); … - 2007

A major criticism against staggered nominal contracts is that they give rise to the so called "persistency puzzle" - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly asserted that, in the context of the new Phillips...

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Envy, guilt, and the Phillips curve

Ahrens, Steffen; Snower, Dennis J. - 2012

, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …

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Hyperbolic discounting and positive optimal inflation

Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - 2011

The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...

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Macroeconomic dynamics in a model of goods, labor and credit market frictions

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Wasmer, Etienne - 2011

Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find … that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The … search models of the labor market fail in one of the two dimensions. Two factors related to goods market frictions generate …

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