Labor market institutions and the business cycle - unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities

Mirko Abbritti and Sebastian Weber

No 1183, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: This paper investigates the importance of labour market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the New Keynesian framework we argue that labour market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause 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 deterministically varying coefficients and find that there is a profound difference in the responses of unemployment and inflation to shocks under different constellations of the labor market. JEL Classification: E32, E24, E52

Keywords: business cycle; labor market search; monetary policy; real wage rigidity; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
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