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William Baumol and his co-authors have analyzed the impact of differential productivity growth on the health of different sectors and on the overall economy. They argued that technologically stagnant sectors experience above average cost and price increases, take a rising share of national...
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increased government purchases crowd out private consumption? 2) do increased government purchases reduce unemployment? Farmer … also reduce unemployment …
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of real shocks. Consequently, more advanced economies should have higher unemployment rates and be more prone to crisis …. The implications of the theory both for measurement and government policy are examined …
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This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer's (2009) model in … which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …
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. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …
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This paper explores the interaction between fiscal policy and unemployment. It develops a dynamic economic model in … which unemployment can arise but can be mitigated by tax cuts and public spending increases. Such policies are fiscally … determination of fiscal policy and unemployment in long run equilibrium. Outcomes with both a benevolent government and political …
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This paper examines the optimal labor contract in a small open economy with incomplete markets under international price uncertainty. The effect on employment, wages, and profits of different realizations of the state of nature is studied and agents' preferences concerning the implementation of...
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recovered but unemployment lingered). This paper presents a model that captures these three facts. The key elements of the model …
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a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …'s unemployment spell, with the majority of this decline occurring during the first eight months. We explore how this effect varies … that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …
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This paper studies the relationship between financial structure and the welfare consequences of fixed exchange rate regimes in small open emerging economies with downward nominal wage rigidity. The paper presents two surprising results. First, a pegging economy might be better off with a closed...
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