The relationship between wage inflation and unemployment has been extensively investigated since the early work of Phillips (1958) and Lipsey (1960), and is still a matter of debate. In this paper we study the dynamics of a standard neoclassical labour market under Walrasian adjustment rules. We...

The paper investigates the role of progressive income taxation in the frame of the basic multiplier-accelerator model in continuous time. It is shown that, while the proportional taxation is, as common wisdom believes, always stabilizing, in the case of non-linear progressive taxation, an...

This paper offers a unified perspective of the analytical detection of Hopf bifurcation, which is a crucial tool in dynamic economic modelling. We clarify the relations between stability theorems and the notions of Simple and General Hopf Bifurcations. A Lienard-Chipart-type theorem for...

Much of the debate on the role played by the age distribution of the population in shaping the growth regimes of the neoclassical growth model of Solow has focused on the notion of capital dilution and the possibility that "optimal" population growth regimes (OPGR) exist. Conversely less has...

It is shown here that the Solow (1956) neo-classical growth paradigm not only explains the "first" stylised fact of economic growth, namely the existence of a globally stable state of balanced growth, but, once endowed with a demographically founded formulation of the labour supply, is also...

Since little attention has been paid to the effects of the regulation of wages on individuals' fertility choice, this paper investigates such effects within a standard OLG model of neoclassical growth. Some new results, so far escaped closer scrutiny by the increasing literature investigating...

In this paper we show that the neoclassical standard OLG growth model, under low substitution in preferences and technology, may generate three stable steady states. In particular we show the richness of the dynamical roles played by the intertemporal substitution parameter. The novelty of our...

Since little attention, despite a long lasting debate, has been paid to the effects of minimum wages on economic growth and welfare, this paper investigates such effects within a textbook OLG framework with an unemployment insurance scheme financed at balanced budget by the government with a...

In this paper the dynamical effects of public environmental policies are investigated in a Cournot duopoly with heterogeneous expectations in a context of limited rationality. It is shown that the introduction of upper limits to emissions always tends to destabilise and generate a chaotic market...

This paper discusses the dynamics of a standard (double Cobb-Douglas) labour market under the circumstance of changes in returns to labour. Despite the simplicity as well as the vast diffusion of this model, such an issue has so far escaped closer scrutiny by economic dynamics literature. This...