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This paper estimates a VAR including labor productivity, real wage and unemployment rate, to identify the dynamic effects of technology, demand, and mark-up shocks, respectively, on the Italian labor market. Identification is achieved by imposing recursive restrictions on the matrix of long run multipliers. Our results show that both mark up and aggregate demand shocks permanently reduce the unemployment rate. Finally, technology shocks do not significantly affect the unemployment rate in the long run. These findings convey important policy implications: expansionary aggregate demand and deregulation policies reducing the mark up permanently decrease the Italian unemployment rate.
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Jel classification: C32, E32, J29
This paper has been produced as part of a CEPR Research Network on “New Approaches to the Study of Economic Fluctuations”. We would like to thank Marcello D’Amato, Mario Forni, Marco Lippi and Antonio Ribba for useful comments. We are also grateful to Bernd Sussmuth for pointing out to us several significant improvements to the paper.
First version received: November 2001/Final version received: October 2002
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Gambetti, L., Pistoresi, B. Policy matters. The long run effects of aggregate demand and mark-up shocks on the Italian unemployment rate. Empirical Economics 29, 209–226 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-003-0159-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-003-0159-3