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employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
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Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock (which appears to be in line with recent empirical findings), the volatilities of unemployment and labor market...
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with … deterministically varying coefficients and find that there is a profound difference in the responses of unemployment and inflation to …
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This paper adds two-sided ex-ante heterogeneity and a production technology inducing sorting to the canonical Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) search and matching model. Ex-ante heterogeneity and sorting have important implications for the dynamic properties of the model. The modifications...
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and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
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This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … theory. Real wage rigidities do not seem to play much of a role. This result is in line with our employed labor market model … output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect on inflation volatility. Our estimations indicate that the …
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All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to …
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This paper proposes an explanation for observed differences in the business cycle volatility of employment and unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model, increases in the gross replacement rate of public...
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cycles. Economic Theory, 12(3):583-597]. The aim of this article is to show that financing constraints can substantially …
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