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We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary policy. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process and derive monetary policy implications. Towards that aim, we structurally model matching frictions and rigid wages...
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We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary policy. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process and derive monetary policy implications. Towards that aim, we structurally model matching frictions and rigid wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604681
degree of wage rigidity makes monetary policy more effective, i.e. a monetary policy shock transmits faster onto inflation …
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degree of wage rigidity makes monetary policy more effective, i.e. a monetary policy shock transmits faster onto inflation …
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270804
money demand falls, while a positive goods productivity shock raises temporary output and velocity. The paper explains such … important for velocity during less stable times and the goods productivity shock more important during stable times. …
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Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. Assuming capital-skill complementarity and fixed relative wages as a consequence of labor market...
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business cycle. Second, a shock that moves the land price is capable of generating large volatility in unemployment. Our … estimation indicates that a 10 percent drop in the land price leads to a 0.34 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate … facts observed in the data. First, the land price and the unemployment rate tend to move in opposite directions over the …
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dynamics as news identified through a broader stock price index, patent applications, the relative price of investment or …
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