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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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How do asymmetric labor market institutions affect the volatility of innovation and unemployment differentials in a … union model with unemployment, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. The model provides a rigorous but tractable …. Positively, we find that inflation and unemployment differentials strongly depend on the underlying labor market structures …
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We incorporate a participation decision in a standard New Keynesian model with matching frictions and show that treating the labor force as constant leads to incorrect evaluation of alternative policies. We also show that the presence of a participation margin mitigates the Shimer critique.
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employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
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This paper discusses various concepts of unemployment rate benchmarks that are frequently used by policymakers for … particular, we propose two broad categories of unemployment rate benchmarks: (1) a longer-run unemployment rate expected to … prevail after adjusting to business cycle shocks and (2) a stable-price unemployment rate tied to inflationary pressures. We …
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between monetary policy, employment, and unemployment. According to the obtained estimates monetary policy shocks invoked … lagged, hump‑shaped reactions of output, employment and unemployment in each of the analysed countries. …
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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 …
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increase in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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