and Japan than in the United States. Employment contributes the largest proportion of the cycle in Europe and the United … States (but not Japan), which is inconsistent with the idea that higher levels of employment protection in Europe dampen …

" - 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 … equilibrium setting (in which real variables not only affect inflation, but are also influenced by it), standard wage …

inflation and the stabilization of the welfare relevant output gap after a productivity shock hits the economy. When the … standard model is enhanced by real wage rigidities or labor turnover costs, an endogenous short-run inflation-output tradeoff … rigidities. Second, labor turnover costs are the dominant source for the inflation-output tradeoff when both rigidities are …