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While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...
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While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Different goods are produced in the formal sector and the informal sector,...
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The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to households. The paper assesses the relative...
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The paper analyzes why households in transition economies prefer to hold sizeable shares of their assets in cash at home rather than in banks. Using survey data from ten Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries, I document the relevance of this behavior and show that cash preferences...
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It has been shown, for non-Communist developed and developing countries, that earlier development of agriculture, a dense population, and a state-level polity is associated with a higher income and more rapid economic growth in the late 20th Century. We investigate whether this was also the case...
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strong persistence effects or even hysteresis effects The empirical analysis is based on G-7 quarterly output data as well as …
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This paper investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or … particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal … evidence of hysteresis in Australia, Canada and the U.S.. These findings cast doubt on previous conclusions in the literature. …
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A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...
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This paper explores the evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal …
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of aggregate demand on capital accumulation can be a major source of hysteresis. Our results are inconsistent with the …
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