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Das im EWU-Vergleich zurückbleibende deutsche Wirtschaftswachstum wird immer wieder zum Anlass genommen, vor allem auf dem Arbeitsmarkt stärkere Flexibilität einzufordern. Sind die Ursachen für das schwache Wirtschaftswachstum Deutschlands tatsächlich primär auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu suchen?...
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In einer radikalen Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes und tiefen Einschnitten in das System der sozialen Sicherung wird zumeist die einzige Möglichkeit gesehen, Deutschland aus seiner wirtschaftlichen „Schlusslichtposition“ zu manövrieren. Welche ökonomischen Argumente stehen hinter diesen...
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This paper challenges the institutional sclerosis view of the German crisis according to which rigid labour markets and generous welfare state institutions have driven Germany into its position as „Europe’s sick man“. In general, the view is not convincing, because the underlying...
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In the present paper we explicitly introduce interest payments and debt into a Kaleckian distribution and growth model with an investment function very close to Kalecki’s original writings. The effects of interest rate variations on the short-run equilibrium values of capacity utilisation,...
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The paper fundamentally challenges the institutional sclerosis explanation of the present German economic stagnation. Instead, we present a macroeconomic explanation focusing on the combined effects of too restrictive monetary policies, too restrictive and sometimes pro- cyclical fiscal policies...
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The introduction of monetary variables into post-Keynesian models of distribution and growth is an ongoing process. Lavoie (1995) has proposed a Kaleckian ‘Minsky-Steindl-model’ of distribution and growth, incorporating the effects debt and debt services have on short and long run capital...
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