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Macroeconomic consequences of the EMU

Hagen, Jürgen von - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 26 (1999) 4, pp. 359-374

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Wages and wage-bargaining institutions in the EMU : a survey of the issues

Calmfors, Lars - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 28 (2001) 4, pp. 325-351

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The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup : Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?

Gordon, Robert J. - 1999

This paper examines the macroeconomic aftermath of the 1992 breakdown of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The economic performance of six leaver' nations is compared with five stayer' nations that maintained a roughly fixed parity with the Deutsche Mark. Recent writing about...

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Fiscal Increasing Returns, Hysteresis, Real Wages and Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1986

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed carries the disturbing implication that there is a sharp conflict between the interests of those currently employed and the unemployed because it suggests that increases in...

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Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1986

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The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs : How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

Coile, Courtney - 2009

Recent dramatic declines in U.S. stock and housing markets have led to widespread speculation that shrinking retirement accounts and falling home equity will lead workers to delay retirement. Yet the weakness in the labor market and its impact on retirement is often overlooked. If older job...

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008

, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment … employment growth across countries and time. Our primary explanatory variables to explain both the revival of EU employment …

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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since the 1960s : Which Institutions Really Mattered?

Allard, Gayle - 2006

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market...

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European Unemployment : The Evolution of Facts and Ideas

Blanchard, Olivier - 2005

In the 1970s, European unemployment started increasing. It increased further in the 1980s, to reach a plateau in the 1990s. It is still high today, although the average unemployment rate hides a high degree of heterogeneity across countries. The focus of researchers and policy makers was...

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