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Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …
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Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …
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Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …
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Brazil has made considerable progress in recent years towards consolidating macroeconomic stability, which is a key framework condition for sustained growth. Monetary policy continues to respond swiftly to changes in the inflation outlook, anchoring expectations. Fiscal policy has been guided by...
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The Euro Area is characterized by little variation in unemployment and strongly procyclical labor productivity. We … significant use of the effort margin in generating procyclical productivity. We show that a model with labor effort is more …
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The Euro Area is characterized by little variation in unemployment and strongly procyclical labor productivity. We … use of the effort margin in generating procyclical productivity. We show that a model with labor effort is more successful …
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Over the past 30 years (1990-2019), African economies have experienced remarkable improvements in real macroeconomic conditions, characterized by higher and more stable real per-capita growth rates, and lower and more stable inflation. This paper documents and seeks to explain these changes at...
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on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … increase in productivity (1.31%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves employment and generates a substantial …
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