This paper discusses the long run effect of changes in the age distribution of Spanish population on the unemployment rate, disaggregated by sex and age segments in the light of cointegration theory given the non stationarity of the series. Four main results are obtained. First, empirical...

After several months of research and consultation the previous Labor government introduced in May 1994 a set of labour market programs targeted at the long term unemployed with its publication of Working Nation. With the new Coalition government taking office in March 1996 we saw the end of...

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...

This paper shows that wage-unemployment elasticities derived from estimated wage curves and Phillips curves may be critically dependent on the measurement of wages. Incorporating hourly wage earnings, that include the influence of overtime payments, can lead to seriously distorted results....

This dissertation studies the question of nonlinearities in the Phillips curve relationshipin France, Germany and Italy. The implications from the theoretical models are that themechanisms that make the Phillips curve nonlinear can work through different channels.Therefore, this thesis not just...

A number of researchers have recently argued that the new-Keynesian Phillips curve matches the empirical behavior of inflation well when the labor income share is used as a driving variable, but fits poorly when deterministically detrended output is used. The theoretical motivation for these...

Die vorliegende Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Diskussion um nach unten starre Nominallöhne. Die Arbeit besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen. Der erste Aufsatz, Ausmaß und reale Konsequenzen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne: Eine Untersuchung für den deutschen...

The subject of the article is the relationship between unemployment and wages at the regional level in the Czech Republic in the period 2003-2010. The aim of the authors was to verify the construction possibility and validity of regional wage and Phillips curves both in the regions and at the...

Este documento analiza la información contenida en medidas alternativas de expectativas de inflación —incluidas las obtenidas a partir de consumidores, empresas, expertos y mercados financieros—, en el contexto de curvas de Phillips de economía abierta. Adoptando una aproximación...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the link between the changes in and the drivers of inflation in a broad range of advanced economies, with special emphasis on those of the euro area. Inflation rates are seen to be highly synchronised across countries, especially in the euro area...