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relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on … curve shifts between 1960 and 2000. A reduction in matching efficiency, that depressed unemployment outflows, shifted the … Beveridge curve is essential for drawing policy conclusions from the joint behavior of unemployment and job openings. …
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inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …
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Phillips-curve framework of low - often extremely low - response of inflation to unemployment could be the result of fairly … most Phillips-curve studies, that conclude that inflation has little relation to unemployment. We suggest that the flat …We propose that the natural rate of unemployment has an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to the …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and …
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Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is … not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …
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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 that may account for a changing pattern in the unemployment inflation trade-off. Moreover, it analyzes whether the …
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On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
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-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …
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consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the … account, the results change dramatically, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Real wage rigidities imply neither inflation … inflation target of the monetary policy. -- Disinflation ; sticky prices ; real wage rigidities ; nonlinearities …
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variables (typically the output gap) and solving the model for inflation in terms of the observables. In practice, the equation … not be appropriate. Thirdly, there are arguments that other variables, e.g. interest rates, foreign inflation and foreign … theoretically consistent measure of the steady state and provides a natural route for foreign inflation or output gap to enter the …
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