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In the presence of downwardly rigid nominal wages, low inflation may lead to higher equilibrium unemployment by …
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presence of downwardly rigid nominal wages, low inflation may lead to higher equilibrium unemployment by hindering real wage …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The … combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of … unemployment. Using a panel data approach, this paper models directly the specific structural determinants of the natural rate of …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The … combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of … unemployment. Using a panel data approach, this paper models directly the specific structural determinants of the natural rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703542
pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations …
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of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized …
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Using Italian data that includes both inflation forecasts of firms and external information on their balance sheets, we study the causal effect of changes in the dispersion of beliefs about future inflation on the misallocation of resources. We find that as disagreement increases, so does...
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We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation. The resulting exogenously generated variation in inflation expectations is used to assess how expectations affect subsequent monthly consumption decisions relative to those in a...
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Rising government debt levels around the world are raising the specter that authorities might seek to inflate away the debt. In theoretical settings where fiscal policy "dominates" monetary policy, higher debt without offsetting changes in primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate...
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implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
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