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not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …
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facing exogenous differences in the job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap … two groups both in the level and volatility of unemployment. We show that the racial unemployment gap is counter … unemployment is above average the gap increases by 0.6pp more than when aggregate unemployment is below average. In terms of policy …
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, unemployment and inflation affect happiness as well as how institutional factors, in particular the type of democracy and the …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The … combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of … unemployment. Using a panel data approach, this paper models directly the specific structural determinants of the natural rate of …
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and lagged relationships between the rates of inflation, unemployment, and change in labour force. For France, several … unemployment within the Phillips curve framework. Following the original problem formulation by Fisher and Phillips, the set of … study has validated the reliability and accuracy of the linear and lagged relationships between inflation, unemployment, and …
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money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …
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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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By developing a job search model with college degree as a noisy signal, this paper analyzes the underlying mechanism of a 'degree-inflation,' measured by the proportion of a highly educated workforce performing unskilled tasks (i.e., cross-skill matches). Skilled workers can perform either...
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Empirically, unemployment is highly volatile while inflation displays inertia, even though marginal cost is pro … unemployment in the Great Recession. Moreover, inflation inertia is made consistent with pro-cyclical marginal cost since the …
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