Insider-outsider labor markets, hysteresis and monetary policy

Jordi Galí

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: I develop a version of the New Keynesian model with insideroutsider labor markets and hysteresis that can account for the high persistence of European unemployment. I study the implications of that environment for the design of monetary policy. The optimal policy calls for strong emphasis on (un)employment stabilization which a standard interest rate rule fails to deliver, with the gap between the two increasing in the degree of hysteresis. Two simple targetiing rules are shown to approximate well the optimal policy. The properties of the model and effects of different policies are analyzed through the lens of the labor wedge and its components.

Keywords: wage stickiness; New Keynesian model; unemployment fluctuations; Phillips curve; monetary policy tradeoffs. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E31 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09, Revised 2020-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-mon
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