Inflation dynamics with labour market matching: assessing alternative specifications

Kai Christoffel, James S. Costain (), Grégory de Walque (), Keith Kuester (), Tobias Linzert (), Stephen Millard () and Olivier Pierrard ()
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Keith Kuester: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Tobias Linzert: European Central Bank
Stephen Millard: Bank of England, Postal: Publications Group Bank of England Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AH

No 375, Bank of England working papers from Bank of England

Abstract: This paper reviews recent approaches to modelling the labour market, and assesses their implications for inflation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modelling set-ups: right-to-manage bargaining versus efficient bargaining, wage stickiness in new and existing matches, interactions at the firm level between price and wage-setting, alternative forms of hiring frictions, search on-the-job and endogenous job separation. We find that most specifications imply too little real rigidity relative to the data and, so, too volatile inflation. Models with wage stickiness and right-to-manage bargaining, or with firm-specific labour emerge as the most promising candidates.

Keywords: Inflation dynamics; labour market; business cycle; real rigidities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E31 E32 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-dge, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-mon
Date: 2009-08-24
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