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Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run : the Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

Author/Editor: Paolo Surico, Luca Antonio Ricci, Pierpaolo Benigno.

Release Date:November, 2010

We propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in more...



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The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off at Low Inflation

Author/Editor: Luca Antonio Ricci, Pierpaolo Benigno.

Release Date:March, 2009

Wage setters take into account the future consequences of their current wage choices in the presence of downward nominal wage rigidities. Several interesting implications arise. First, a closed-form more...



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