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current inflation rates and adaptive expectations concerning the inflation climate in which the economy operates. The model … correction terms, and indirectly of income distribution, in the dynamics of wage and price inflation in the U.S. and the euro …
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which induce smooth inflation also dampen the adjustment of wages in response to shocks. In the search and matching … Phillips curve is that inflation is not only driven by an output gap but also by an employment gap – a feature usually …
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result is that the model is able to generate persistent responses in output, inflation, and total labor input to both neutral …
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Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of labor--both jobseeking and recruiting. The...
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1980s. Based on the timing of observed fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, and productivity, it appears that the …. -- Unemployment ; labor market search ; job flows ; labor share ; inflation ; productivity shocks ; monetary shocks …
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labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment …. This finding is robust to including a microeconomically realistic degree of indexation of wages to inflation. The lack of a … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can potentially explain the unemployment crisis in the Great Depression. The limited responses of wages from credible bargaining to labor market conditions, along with the congestion...
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