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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779865
We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139707
imperfect competition. In equilibrium, unemployment emerges as the result of the market power exercised by insiders at the firm … countercyclical unemployment rate, in a way qualitatively consistent with US data. …
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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270843
labor market frictions and unemployment explicitly. The present paper describessome of the essential ingredients and …
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We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation trade- off and for the conduct of monetary policy. We proceed in two steps. We first leave … unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage setting mechanisms …
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model labor market frictions and unemployment explicitly. This chapter describes some of the essential ingredients and …
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A new approach for introducing unemployment into the New Keynesian framework. …cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Simple Model of Unemployment and Inflation … Dynamics -- Unemployment, the Output Gap, and the Welfare Costs of Economic Fluctuations -- Unemployment and Monetary Policy …
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