John Bluedorn is a Deputy Division Chief on the World Economic Outlook in the IMF’s Research Department. Previously, he has been a senior economist in the Research Department’s Structural Reforms Unit, a member of the IMF’s euro area team in the European Department and worked on the World Economic Outlook as an economist, contributing to a number of chapters. Before joining the IMF, he was a professor at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, after a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. Mr. Bluedorn has published on a range of topics in international finance, macroeconomics, and development. He holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Wage-price spirals: The historical evidence
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- Inflation 
- Labour Markets

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The unequal effects of labour market reallocation
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- Labour Markets & Migration

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Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-country evidence on ‘she-cessions’
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- COVID-19 
- Labour Markets 
- Gender
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Towards a fiscal union for the Eurozone
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- EU policies
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Do equity price drops foreshadow recessions?
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- Financial Markets