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This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …
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surprising miracle occurred the leaver nations are alleged to have enjoyed a burst of real growth and a decline in unemployment … pronounced if it were not for quiescent wage rates, which the paper attributes to high unemployment. The absence of any …
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Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …
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consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …
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market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between sectors … as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage inequality … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …
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unemployment, and relatively greater income equality, in contrast to the opposite path being pursued by the United States. While … structural shocks may initially create a positive tradeoff between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic … theoretical contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment tradeoff might emerge and how it might …
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