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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in … high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank's target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would …

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 …

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 …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

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 …

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …