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This paper investigates the role of staggered wages and sticky prices in explaining stylized labor market facts. We build on a partial equilibrium search and matching model and expand the model to a general equilibrium model with sticky prices and/or staggered wages. We show that the core model...
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this model type, where a generalized Taylor rule that employs a weighted combination of wage and price inflation is used as … a measure for the inflation gap. … Inflation-Gap verwendet wird. …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with … deterministically varying coeficients and find that there is a profound difference in the responses of unemployment and inflation to …
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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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We develop a theoretical model with labor market frictions, incomplete financial markets and with households which have two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical...
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This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …
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Recession: a decline in productivity growth, the relative stability of inflation despite a pronounced fall in output (the …
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This paper studies a labor market with directed search, where multi-worker firms follow a firm wage policy: They pay equally productive workers the same. The policy reduces wages, due to the influence of firms’ existing workers on their wage setting problem, increasing the profitability...
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shocks and supply shocks inflation stabilization imposes high welfare costs. At the same time, stabilizing nominal wages …
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This paper presents a model in which mismatch employment arises in a constrained efficient equilibrium. In the decentralized economy, however, mismatch gives rise to a congestion externality whereby heterogeneous job seekers fail to internalize how their individual actions affect the labor...
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