Author : Simon M. Burgess
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis An International Comparison of Employment Adjustment to Exchange Rate Fluctuations by : Simon M. Burgess
Download or read book An International Comparison of Employment Adjustment to Exchange Rate Fluctuations written by Simon M. Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper evaluates the response of employment to exchange rate shocks at the industry level for the G-7 countries. Using a simple empirical framework that places little a priori structure on the pattern of response to shocks, we find the data are consistent with the view that employment in European industries, at least France and Germany, is much less influenced by exchange rate shocks and much slower to adjust to long run steady states. The United States, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy all appear to adjust more quickly. German and Japanese employment are quite insensitive to exchange rate fluctuations, consistent with previous research on output and markup responses to exchange rates.