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In this paper we introduce a small Keynesian model of economic growth which is centered around two advanced types of Phillips curves, one for money wages and one for prices, both being augmented by perfect myopic foresight and supplemented by a measure of the medium-term inflationary climate...
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We study the emplyment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions. Job creation entails some fixed costs, but existing jobs are subject to diminishing returns. We characterize the equilibrium in the de-regulated...
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unemployment. We show that the incentive power of the equilibrium wage contract is constrained socially efficient in the absence of … unemployment benefits. We then apply the model to explain the recent increase in performance-pay contracts. Within our model, this … factors is an increase in the equilibrium unemployment rate. …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population interms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany andrepeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that … thesensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in thepublic sector than in the private …
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In this Manifesto, we make a set of proposals to fight unemployment in the EU. We believe that the European … unemployment problem needs to be attacked on two fronts: through a broad spectrum of supply-side policies and the demand management …-side measures are also taken, demand expansion can result in more inflation instead of more employment, because of the mismatch …
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In this Manifesto, we make a set of proposals to fight unemployment in the EU. We believe that the European … unemployment problem needs to be attacked on two fronts: through a broad spectrum of supply-side policies and the demand management …-side measures are also taken, demand expansion can result in more inflation instead of more employment, because of the mismatch …
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In this paper we focus on the impact of involuntary unemployment on wage formation using experimental evidence. We use … twofold: on the one hand, we are interested in analyzing the relation between involuntary unemployment and wages; on the other … results show that unemployment has a negative impact on wages. Moreover, there is a positive correlation between wage and …
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unemployment. Moreover, the wage sweep-ups caused by nominal rigidity are strongly correlated with unemployment suggesting that … downward rigidity of nominal wages indeed contributes to unemployment. …
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reciprocal relationship. The variable considered are: unemployment, inflation, consumptions, investments and current accounts. We … between investment and unemployment, c) we show the revival of the Phillips curve, especially in Germany, d) we test for the … relationship between unemployment and the Government deficit, e) we show the existence of a relationship between unemployment and …
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