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causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
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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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This paper builds up a simple New Keynesian model and revisits the relationship between unemployment and in ation in … beyond the tradeoff between the first moments of unemployment and infl ation provided by the short-run Phillips curve. Higher … volatility in ifln ation raises unemployment at low-frequency. Increased volatility in infl ation makes nominal wages more …
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externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …
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We study the distributional consequences of COVID-19 by using a stock-flow consistent agent-based model that captures some of the aspects of pandemic-related lockdowns. In particular, the model distinguishes between "essential" and "non-essential" industries, between jobs that can be done from...
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unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …
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opportunities, here expressed as the unemployment rate differential for each single territory with respect to its surroundings …
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The Hodrick-Prescott filter is a popular tool in macroeconomics for decomposing a time series into a smooth trend and a business cycle component. The last few years have witnessed global events, such as the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, that have had...
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