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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

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dc.creator Fritsche, Ulrich
dc.creator Kuzin, Vladimir N.
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:50Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:50Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18399
dc.identifier ppn:525754032
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18399
dc.description Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying PANIC (Bai and Ng, 2004) and cluster procedures (Hobijn and Franses, 2000, Busetti et al., 2006) to Euro area countries as well as US States, US Census Regions and German Länder. Euro area differs in that dispersion in general (and its fraction due to idiosyncratic factors in specific) is larger and common factors are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all countries.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 667
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject E31
dc.subject O47
dc.subject C32
dc.subject C33
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Unit labor costs
dc.subject inflation
dc.subject European Monetary Union
dc.subject Germany
dc.subject United States of America
dc.subject convergence
dc.subject convergence clubs
dc.subject panel unit root tests
dc.subject Inflationskonvergenz
dc.subject Inflationsrate
dc.subject Lohnstückkosten
dc.subject Arbeitsproduktivität
dc.subject Entwicklungskonvergenz
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Europäische Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion
dc.subject EU-Staaten
dc.title Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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