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A simple plot of seasonal adjusted quarterly data between the change of nominal wage rates and the unemployment rate …-integration of wage rate changes and unemployment rate is not the argument that could be drawn on to sustain this scepticism. On the … separated components support Phillips’ hypothesis of a negative relationship between wage rate changes and the unemployment rate. …
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) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …
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plot of seasonal adjusted quarterly data between the change of nominal wage rates and the unemployment rate shows a picture …
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This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
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Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
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Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …
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The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) is a major concept in (monetary) economics in predicting … changes in the inflation rate. As the inflation neutral unemployment rate is an unobserved and, in the long run, a changing … changes in the unemployment rate or the labor productivity are necessary to forecast changes in the inflation rate accurately …
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Profit as rent: Some remarks about a pro-capitalist theory of development This study discusses several of the economic cornerstones of the contribution made by Hartmut Elsenhans to the so-called Global Keynesianism. Included are his unique definition of profits and rents; the thesis of net...
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Mass consumption and underdevelopment in the „Third World“? Some remarks about the political economic theses of Hartmut Elsenhans The author‘s main thesis is that rising mass income is a precondition of capitalist growth. Without making any differences, he claims in the same article that...
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This paper discusses the case for expanding active labor market policy in recession. We find that there is reasonable case for relying more heavily on certain kinds of programs. The argument is tied to the varying size of the lock-in effect in boom and recession. If programs with relatively...
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