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How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...
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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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We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is given by currently employed workers. Our model captures well the salient features of European labor...
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We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the same time generating considerable wage and price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the...
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lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct … labor resources generated in the aftermath of a shock). Furthermore, we estimate the contributions of individual lagged …
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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been "rigid" in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers … price. Firms adjust wages flexibly in response to variations in labor demand. The resulting theory of wage adjustment is …
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cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
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market with wage rigidities may not recover from such a temporary labor supply shock: with a younger and less experienced … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience … becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
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