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Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants …' labour supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since …The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly …
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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
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of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and …
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In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the … (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropout population by 24%, while only increasing the number of … large expansion of employment in high immigration regions. Specifically, most industries in high-immigration regions …
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-unemployment tradeoff for Spain and examine how recent policy changes have affected it. …
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On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
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This paper has two aims. First, it provides simple theoretical models that highlight two channels whereby monetary shocks have permanent real effects and the interactions between these channels. Second, it presents an empirical dynamic model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the...
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In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an 'empirical law of economics' -the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders...
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth? describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...
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This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a phenomenon arising from the interplay between growth and frictions. In particular, we examine the interaction between money growth (on the one hand) and various real and nominal...
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