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Labour tax reforms, cross-country coordination and the monetary policy stance in the euro area: A structural model-based approach

Jacquinot, Pascal; Pisani, Massimiliano; Lozej, Matija - 2018

We evaluate the effects of permanently reducing labour tax rates in the euro area (EA) by simulating a large-scale open economy dynamic general equilibrium model. The model features the EA as a monetary union, split in two regions (Home and the rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the...

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Exploring Okun's law asymmetry: An endogenous threshold LSTR approach

Christopoulos, Dimitris; McAdam, Peter; Tzavalis, Elias - 2019

-related variables accounts for changes (rises) in the Okun's parameter in the US in recent decades. Accordingly, the unemployment gap is …

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Hysteresis in unemployment: Evidence from OECD estimates of the natural rate

Ball, Laurence M.; Onken, Joern - 2021

This paper studies the dynamics of unemployment (u) and its natural rate (u*), with u* measured by real-time estimates …

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Does slack influence public and private labor market interactions?

Lamo, Ana; Moral-Benito, Enrique; Pérez, Javier J. - 2016

We empirically analyze the impact of public employment and wages' shocks on private labor market outcomes by studying if policies operate differently in periods of economic slack than in normal times. We use local projection methods and focus on the Spanish and euro area aggregate cases. We find...

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A lost generation? Education decisions and employment outcomes during the U.S. housing boom-bust cycle of the 2000s

Popov, Alexander; Laeven, Luc - 2016

We exploit regional variation in US house price fluctuations during the boom-bust cycle of the 2000s to study the impact of the housing cycle on young Americans' choices related to education and employment. We find that in MSAs which experienced large increases in house prices between 2001 and...

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Unemployment risk and over-indebtedness

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2016

We study how unemployment affects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and … to country specific results, the role of unemployment varies widely across countries. In Spain, France or Portugal, for … households plagued by over-indebtedness increased by more than 10%, suggesting that another unemployment shock could have a major …

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Macroeconomic effects of tariffs shocks: The role of the effective lower bound and the labour market

Jacquinot, Pascal; Lozej, Matija; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2020

We simulate a version of the EAGLE, a New Keynesian multi-country model of the world economy, to assess the macroeconomic effects of US tariffs imposed on one country member of the euro area (EA), and the rest of the world (RW). The model is augmented with an endogenous effective lower bound...

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What's up with the Phillips curve?

Del Negro, Marco; Lenza, Michele; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; … - 2020

an estimated DSGE model. It finds that the disconnect is due primarily to the muted reaction of inflation to cost … inflation stabilization also appears to have played some role by reducing the impact of demand shocks on the real economy. The …

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