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Labor turnover costs, workers' heterogeneity and optimal monetary policy

Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2009

We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are … zero and the optimal volatility of inflation is an increasing function of firing costs. The optimal rule should react to … employment alongside inflation. -- Optimal monetary policy ; hiring and firing costs ; labor market frictions ; policy trade-off …

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Monetary persistence and the labor market : a new perspective

Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor); … - 2008

introduction of labor turnover costs (such as hiring and firing costs). Assuming that it is costly to hire and fire workers implies …. -- Monetary persistence ; labor market ; hiring and firing costs …

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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment

Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2009

macroeconomic volatilities. In our subsequent empirical estimations, we find that higher labor turnover costs have a statistically … theory. Real wage rigidities do not seem to play much of a role. This result is in line with our employed labor market model … ; macroeconomic volatility ; monetary policy ; firing costs ; unemployment benefits ; replacement rate …

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Labor selection, turnover costs and optimal monetary policy

Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2012 - This version September 2012

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Firm training and wage rigidity

Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...

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Quadratic labor adjustment costs and the New-Keynesian model

Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor); … - 2008

We build quadratic labor adjustment costs into an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model of the business cycle and show … costs …

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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor

Larch, Mario (contributor); Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...

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Increasing returns to scale and the long-run Phillips curve

Vaona, Andrea (contributor); Snower, Dennis J. (contributor) - 2006

A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real macroeconomic activity. Within a New Keynesian framewok, we examine how increasing returns generate a positive long-run relation between inflation and output.

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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They are even larger! : More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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