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An immigration shock has an ambiguous effect on inflation. On one hand, aggregate consumption increases with a suddenly …. The response of an inflation-targeting central bank to an immigration shock is, therefore, not obvious. We study these … country that has experienced a substantial immigration flow in recent years …
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This paper studies the effect of monetary policy shocks on different demographic groups in the U.S. labor market. I look at the effect of a contractionary monetary policy shock on unemployment rates of high and low-skill workers, finding that the low-skill group is more sensitive to these shocks...
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Recently, the unemployment gap in the euro area has fallen markedly. However, wages increased less than predicted by … in the Netherlands after the crisis. In Germany (Spain), both measures suggest a recent flattening (steepening) of the …
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This paper is aimed at filling the gap in existing economic research by delivering new evidence on the money‑labour nexus in the emerging markets of the non‑eurozone Visegrad group countries (i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). Analyses are based on the Strucutral VAR (SVAR) models of...
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We examine the impact of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on the euro area labor markets over the period 2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to expansionary monetary policy surprises that can be related to...
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Differences in labour market institutions and regulations between countries of the monetary union can cause divergent responses even to a common shock. We augment a multi-country model of the euro area with search and matching framework that differs across Ricardian and hand-to-mouth households....
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legislation, unions, wages, wage structure, unemployment insurance, etc. – have been alleged and found guilty to have caused this …
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Differences in labour market institutions and regulations between countries of the monetary union can cause divergent responses even to a common shock. We augment a multi-country model of the euro area with search and matching framework that differs across Ricardian and hand-to-mouth households....
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The economic recovery in CESEE has strengthened further in recent months, resulting in a number of additional upgrades to our growth forecasts for 2021, to 5.4% on the regional average. This good performance has been built on two important foundation stones: the adaptation of the CESEE economies...
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