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Factor substitution and factor augmenting technical progress in the US

Klump, Rainer; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2004

economy from 1953 to 1998. Avoiding potential estimation biases that have occurred in earlier studies and putting a high …

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Shocking stuff

Cantore, Cristiano; León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; McAdam, Peter - 2010

The reaction of hours worked to technology shocks represents a key controversy between RBC and New Keynesian explanations of the business cycle. It sparked a large empirical literature with contrasting results. We demonstrate that, with a more general and data coherent supply and production...

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Indeterminacy and search theory

Giammarioli, Nicola - 2003

This paper investigates a dynamic general equilibrium model with search. In particular, search externalities are reßected by an increasing returns to scale matching function, which may imply an indeterminate equilibrium. Hence, the model is capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by...

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Temporary shocks and unavoidable transitions to a high-unemployment regime

Den Haan, Wouter J. - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment rate) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large enough shocks initiate unavoidable transitions from one regime to the other. The...

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Unemployment, hysteresis and transition

León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter - 2003

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...

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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?

Mourre, Gilles - 2004

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...

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Technology shocks and robust sign restrictions in a euro area SVAR

Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2004

This paper provides evidence for the impact of technology, labor supply, monetary policy and aggregate spending shocks on hours worked in the Euro area. The evidence is based on a vector autoregression identiﬁed using sign restrictions that are consistent with both sticky price and real...

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Aggregation and euro area Phillips curves

Fabiani, Silvia; Morgan, Julian - 2003

This paper examines the issue of the impact of aggregation in the empirical analysis of euro area labour markets. A Phillips Curve describing the adjustment of unit labour costs is estimated at the national and aggregate level for the 5 largest euro area countries. Potential sources of...

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Time variation in U.S. wage dynamics

Hofmann, Boris; Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2010

as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be … linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the "Great Inflation", nominal wages moved in the same direction as … the (required) adjustment of real wages, and in the opposite direction of the price response. During the "Great Inflation …

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Labor market institutions and the business cycle unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities

Abbritti, Mirko; Weber, Sebastian - 2010

This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage...

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