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The right to a job, the right types of projects: employment guarantee policies from a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2007
, and unpaid work, on the other, well-designed employment guarantee policies can promote job creation, gender equality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266476
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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the … international levels end up aggravating inequities, gender equality processes face many more barriers, especially among the poor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266534
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The economic and financial crises in CEE and CIS gender perspectives and policy choices
Ünal, Fatma Gül; Dokmanovic, Mirjana; Abazov, Rafis - 2010
This paper looks at the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), where economies have been most dramatically hit by the global crisis and its impact is likely to be most long-lasting, especially among poor and vulnerable groups. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281745
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Financing the capital development of the economy: A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, Larry Randall - 2015
This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545297
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Is Europe disintegrating? Macroeconomic divergence, structural polarization, trade and fragility
Gräbner, Claudius; Schütz, Bernhard; Heimberger, Philipp - 2017
This paper analyses economic developments in the Eurozone since its inception in 1999. In doing so, we document a process of economic divergence and polarization among those countries that joined the Eurozone during its first two years, which fits a typical 'core - periphery' pattern. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916760
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Employment guarantee programs: a survey of theories and policy experiences
Kaboub, Fadhel - 2007
This working paper provides a survey of the theoretical underpinnings for the various employment guarantee schemes, and discusses full employment policy experiences in the United States, Sweden, India, Argentina, and France. The theoretical and policy developments are delineated in a historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266460
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The continuing legacy of John Maynard Keynes
Wray, L. Randall - 2007
This working paper examines the legacy of Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of its publication and the 60th anniversary of Keynes's death. The paper incorporates some of the latest research by prominent followers of Keynes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266511
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ELR-led economic development: a plan for Tunisia
Kaboub, Fadhel - 2007
This paper establishes the financial feasibility of an employer-of-last-resort (ELR) program in a small developing country like Tunisia. It argues that an ELR-led economic development policy is vastly superior to the traditional import substitution industrialization (ISI), export-led, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266543
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Endogenous money: Structuralist and horizontalist
Wray, L. Randall - 2007
While the mainstream long argued that the central bank could use quantitative constraints as a means to controlling the private creation of money, most economists now recognize that the central bank can only set the overnight interest ratewhich has only an indirect impact on the quantity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266639
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Social security and gender inequality
Malyshava, Liudmila; McCoy, Brandon - 2024
This inquiry examines the role of federal policy in gender inequality using the principles of institutional adjustment … for older women, but also for reducing gender inequality overall. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581883