We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

unemployment in a range of EMU countries and to compare the results across countries. A time-series analysis is conducted in the … literature on capital stock and unemployment, before it deals with the theoretical model. This is followed by estimation and … hypothesis of the paper: capital stock is an important determinant of unemployment and wages in the countries considered for the …