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-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the … labour market performances in the European Union during the Great Recession, we can easily detect the existence of …
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Post Keynesian (PK) growth models typically fail to model unemployment. That shows up in the absence of any equilibrium … or exploding unemployment rate. The underlying analytical problem is failure to resolve the Harrod (1939) knife edge …
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shows how labor markets and unemployment can be added into super-multiplier models to provide a comprehensive growth model …
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The natural rate hypothesis states that there exists an unemployment rate at which inflation is stable, and that this … unemployment rate is independent of aggregate demand shocks. The hysteresis hypothesis, in contrast, states that the long run … unemployment rate can be affected by aggregate demand shocks. While policy makers have warned of the risk of hysteresis since the …
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-taken to support the hypothesis that high rates of homeownership lead to high unemploy-ment via increases in the reservation …
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Based on a narrative dataset constructed by David and Leigh (2018) that covers nine South American economies in the period 1982-2017, this paper estimates dynamic effects of fiscal consolidations on income inequality from Jordá (2005)'s local projections method. Results suggest that fiscal...
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' PC (relating the level of the inflation rate, not the change in this rate, to the rate of unemployment); and the …
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We explore the relationship between inequality, unemployment, and inflation by considering the evidence that low … income distribution. The inflation-unemployment-inequality nexus leads to the inequality-augmented Phillips curve relating … higher levels of unemployment to lower inflation rates and more inequality. We then perform two sets of experiments to …
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We use novel German survey data to investigate how perceptions and information about public finances influence attitudes towards public debt and fiscal rules. On average, people strongly underestimate the debt-to-GDP ratio, overestimate the interest-to-tax-revenue ratio and favor a tighter...
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We show that fiscal multiplier estimations may be biased by movements in asset and credit markets, as they facilitate spurious correlations of changes in cyclically adjusted revenues and spending with GDP growth via an identification bias and an omitted variable bias, thus overstating episodes...
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