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relationship between real wages, labour productivity and unemployment. Different time series econometric tools confirm that incomes … impact of incomes policy on the weak relationship between real wages and unemployment is detected. The analysis calls for a …
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they joined the establishment from unemployment. This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …
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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 …
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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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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …
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This paper analyzes the cost of disinflations under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. The consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the standard Calvo model. Real wage rigidities thus generate...
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RBC models with search unemployment and wage renegotiation generate too much wage volatility and too stable … unemployment rate. Shimer (2004) shows that it is possible to reproduce a volatility of unemployment similar to that observed in … unemployment …
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with less perverse effect on unemployment. Time inconsistency is more likely due to lack of credibility than to the short …
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We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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