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This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries … public and private sector wages over the business cycle; this finding is robust across methods and measures of wages and … quite general across countries. Second, we show evidence of long-run relationships between public and private sector wages …
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. Wage growth of job stayers is moderated but still positive; and wages of entrants compared with those of incumbents are no …
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This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized … system. Real wages and wage inflation emerge as especially persistent following an import price shock, while price inflation … wages is attributable mainly to unemployment shocks (about 80 percent), whereas variation in the forecast errors of prices …
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During the Great Recession, unemployment increased substantially across several euro area countries, with wages … effect of changes in the composition of workers on wages and wage cyclicality. We find that compositional effects are highly … results partially explain the muted response of the observed wages to the business cycle, as wages decreased more than what …
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unemployment in Europe. These include the influence of trade unions, social security benefits, employment security, mismatch …
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This paper examines the issue of the impact of aggregation in the empirical analysis of euro area labour markets. A Phillips Curve describing the adjustment of unit labour costs is estimated at the national and aggregate level for the 5 largest euro area countries. Potential sources of...
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asymmetries within the bank combined with fixed wages. Two kinds of inefficiencies arise in equilibrium: the credit officer either …
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We argue that the existence of large amounts of specific human capital makes costly and slows down the adjustment in the labor market after large reallocation shocks. To illustrate this point we build a theoretical framework in which young agents’ career is heavily determined by initial...
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of wages not changed in relation to the 1995 level. Changes in education and especially tenure would have been …
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This paper studies the role of wage moderation and labour and product market regulation for employment creation. To this end, labour demand estimates are presented for the five largest euro area countries at the aggregate level and for three macro sectors: manufacturing, construction and...
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