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标题：Understanding the dynamics of labor shares and inflation
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作者：Martina Lawless ; Karl Whelan
期刊名称：Euro Area Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
印刷版ISSN：1830-3420
电子版ISSN：1830-3439
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
出版社：European Central Bank
摘要：Calvo-style models of nominal rigidities currently provide the dominant paradigm for understanding the linkages between wage and price dynamics. Recent empirical implementations stress the idea that these models link in ation to the behavior of the labor share of income. Gal, Gertler, and Lopez-Salido (2001) argue that the model explains the combination of declining in ation and labor shares in Euro area. In this paper, we show that with realistic parameters, the canonical Calvo-style model cannot explain this outcome. In addition, we show that the model fails very badly in sectoral data. We examine the elements underlying the decline in the labor share in Europe, and conclude that the key factors are related to technological and labor market developments not accounted for in the standard New-Keynesian framework.
关键词：Labor Share; Phillips Curve; Sectoral Data