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The US inflation-unemployment tradeoff : methodological issues and further evidence

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009

This paper addresses the various methodological issues surrounding vector autoregressions, simultaneous equations, and chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that money growth is a superior indicator of the monetary...

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Productivity growth and the Phillips curve : a reassessment of the US experience

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009

In this paper we analyse a new Phillips curve (NPC) model and demonstrate that (i) frictional growth, i.e. the interplay of wage-staggering and money growth, generates a nonvertical NPC in the long-run, and (ii) the Phillips curve (PC) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a...

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Does downward nominal wage rigidity dampen wage increases?

Stüber, Heiko; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010

Regression and Seemingly Unrelated Regression to a data set comprising more than 169 million wage changes. We find evidence for a … compression ; unconditional quantile regression …

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The unemployment inflation trade-off in the euro area

Linzert, Tobias (contributor) - 2005

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of unemployment. Using a panel data approach, this paper...

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The asymmetric effect of wage floors : a natural experiment with a rising and falling minimum wage

Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano; Piqueras, Jon - 2023

Exploiting a unique natural experiment,we showthe asymmetric effects of a large increase and an equivalent subsequent decrease to a binding minimum wage. Wages in a leading low-wage industry increase as the minimumwage rises, but do not fall when it is lowered. This boost for low-wage workers'...

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The recent evolution of the natural rate of unemployment

Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Valletta, Robert G. - 2011

The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects the fact that the shocks that hit the economy were...

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Studying the NAIRU and its implications

Bozani, Vasiliki; Drydakis, Nick - 2011

, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) has in the …, identifying methodological strengths and the weaknesses in the body of the macroeconomic research about the concept of NAIRU. In … synthesizing quantitative literature. -- NAIRU ; macroeconomic policies …

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Unemployment and labor force participation in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings indicate that there is no long-run relationship between...

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Does the unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment...

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Long memory in Turkish unemployment rates

Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders of integration equal to or higher than 1 in most...

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