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Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study

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  • Nunziata, Luca

    () (University of Padova)

  • Bowdler, Christopher

    () (Nuffield College, Oxford)

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An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of movements in unemployment, import prices, tax rates and productivity is dampened, both on impact and dynamically. In contrast, monopoly power in labour supply, measured by the percentage unionisation of the workforce, appears to amplify the response of inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in demand- and supply-side conditions.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1510.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2005
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Publication status: published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 619-642
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Keywords: inflation; input price shocks; labour market coordination; trade union density;

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  2. Fabio Rumler & Johann Scharler, 2009. "Labor market institutions and macroeconomic volatility in a panel of OECD countries," Working Paper Series 1005, European Central Bank.
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  4. Hanan Morsy & Florence Jaumotte, 2012. "Determinants of Inflation in the Euro Area: The Role of Labor and Product Market Institutions," IMF Working Papers 12/37, International Monetary Fund.
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  6. Fatih Macit, 2010. "The Role of Labor Market Institutions on Wage and Inflation Dynamics: Empirical Evidence from OECD Economies," Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), School of Economics and Finance, vol. 40(1), pages 64-77, March.
  7. Stefano Gnocchi & Evi Pappa, 2009. "Do labor market rigidities matter for business cycles? Yes they do," Working Papers 411, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
  8. Cavallero, Alessandro, 2011. "The convergence of inflation rates in the EU-12 area: A distribution dynamics approach," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 341-357, June.
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