Insider-Outsider Labor Markets, Hysteresis and Monetary Policy

Jordi Galí
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto and Jordi Galí

No 872, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: I develop a version of the New Keynesian model with insider- outsider 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 targeting 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: 2016-02
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