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Search Unemployment in a Dynamic New Keynesian Model of the Business Cycle
Gerke, Rafael; Rubart, Jens - 2003
The monetary transmission mechanism plays an important role in studying the effects of monetary policy on the real side of the economy. At least since Chari et al. (2000) it is generally accepted that new keynesian models of the business cycle display a persistence problem. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323703
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Search unemployment in a dynamic new Keynesian model of the business cycle
Gerke, Rafael; Rubart, Jens - 2003
The monetary transmission mechanism plays an important role in studying the effects of monetary policy on the real side of the economy. At least since Chari et al. (2000) it is generally accepted that new keynesian models of the business cycle display a persistence problem. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524517
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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021
We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512274
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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228789
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? Aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280687
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? : aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David Locke; Paci, Pierella - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408899
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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences
Goto, Eiji - 2020
We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841145
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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Hassan, Tarek Alexander - 2020
fraction of their market value and have also reduced hiring and investment. In addition to Brexit uncertainty (the second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843867
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Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times : A Cross-Country Analysis
Bachmann, Ronald - 2018
This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922444
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Labour Tax Reforms, Cross-Country Coordination and the Monetary Policy Stance in the Euro Area : A Structural Model-Based Approach
Jacquinot, Pascal - 2018
We evaluate the effects of permanently reducing labour tax rates in the euro area (EA) by simulating a large-scale open economy dynamic general equilibrium model. The model features the EA as a monetary union, split in two regions (Home and the rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928551