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households and lower investment by firms, and hence leads to lower aggregate investment and growth. This paper argues that …
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. Most firms revise downward their expectations for sales, orders, employment, and investment, while prices are expected to …
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This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi …-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital accumulation equations. Financialization … swings experienced by the financialization process. We find that it has had relevant unemployment effects in all periods …
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– globalization, technological advance and financialization (GTF) – that have weakened the connections between economies and societies …
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This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi …-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital accumulation equations. Financialization … swings experienced by the financialization process. We find that it has had relevant unemployment effects in all periods …
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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...
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Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The calibrated model leads to a significant reduction in the...
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Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004), I further introduce search on the goods market....
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We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
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