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bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391687
real wages and low unemployment result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects within a sector … are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are considered at once …, low real wages and low unemployment again result. The assumption that unions and employers' federations are not able to …
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. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a significant role in … explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo-Saxon ones. We also show that … there is no relationship between the incidence of the PTB and unemployment persistence, even though there is a positive one …
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unemployment. We show that aggregate unemployment decreases for uneven technical change in the case of Cobb-Douglas production … leading to a rise in unemployment. Moreover, we identify polar cases when unemployment strongly decreases. …
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inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …
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real wages and low unemployment result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects within a sector … are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are considered at once …, low real wages and low unemployment again result. The assumption that unions and employers' federations are not able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001647018
bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001573265
unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial equilibrium effects are taken into account, high real wages and … unemployment results, which may explain the persistence of high unemployment in Europe. If all general equilibrium effects are … incorporated at once, again low real wages and low unemployment results. We thus obtain a hump-shaped relationship between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391642
This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labour demand and Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309510
This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi … appears as a key determinant of capital accumulation which, in turn, is the transmission channel towards its unemployment … swings experienced by the financialization process. We find that it has had relevant unemployment effects in all periods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721371