This paper uses a panel approach to analyze the relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate in 12 OECD countries (i.e. Australia, Canada, Norway, Czech Republic, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United State). Since the trade-off...

This paper studies the role of long-term unemployment in the determination of prices and wages. Labor market theories such as insider-outsider models predict that this type of unemployed are less relevant in the wage formation process than the newly unemployed. This paper looks for evidence of...

By using a model of trade union behaviour Grüner (2010) argues that the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary centralization lets the central bank react less flexibly to...