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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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the PC and explain the evolution of inflation and unemployment in the US from 1970 to 2006. Since our empirical …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … and inflation, while the monetary expansion was quite ineffective and led mainly to higher inflation. Finally, the …
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This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of quot;frictional growth … policy has not only persistent, but permanent real effects, giving rise to a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. We … the US unemployment and inflation trajectories during the nineties …
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models can generate both substantial inflation persistence and a nonzero inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the long … - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … asserted that, in the context of the new Phillips curve (NPC), inflation is a jump variable. We argue that this persistency …
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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 …
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and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
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money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …
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, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …
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peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the … consumer price inflation rate …
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, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) has in the …
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