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In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...
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they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …
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part-time workers. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate led to an average decline in real hourly wages … of new hires are not helpful for understanding the behaviour of unemployment over the business cycle. …
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of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
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; equilibrium unemployment ; inflation target ; Phillips curve ; Lucas critique ; Germany …
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unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
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unemployment. The results suggest that the elasticity is indeed negative, i.e. that real wages are lower in local labour markets … with higher unemployment. The size of the elasticity for the euro area is similar to that found in previous studies for a … number of countries, including the United States. Furthermore, there is some variation in the unemployment elasticity by …
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unemployment. Moreover, the wage sweep-ups caused by nominal rigidity are strongly correlated with unemployment suggesting that … downward rigidity of nominal wages indeed contributes to unemployment …
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