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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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whereby unemployment affects investment and growth. The model generates a growth unemployment rate trade-off. A reduced … propensity to save raises growth but it also raises the unemployment rate because of induced technological progress. This … unemployment affects income distribution; introduction of a Phillips curve and inflation effects; and introduction of demand growth …
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This paper presents a neo-Kaleckian - Goodwin model of growth and distribution. The key innovation is the introduction of managerial pay. Kaleckian monopoly power determines the functional distribution of income and Goodwin labor bargaining power determines wage bill division. The model helps...
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perspectives. Next, the paper shows that the super-multiplier is a micro-economically coherent theory of investment and capital … accumulation. Firms' decisions regarding capital accumulation coordinate demand and supply growth in goods markets. The paper then … shows how labor markets and unemployment can be added into super-multiplier models to provide a comprehensive growth model …
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inequality or the Charybdis of unemployment. Furthermore, it looks like the continental European economies - foremost Germany and … France - sided with more egalitarian ends accepting higher unemployment whilst the liberal economies such as the United … States and the United Kingdom choose higher inequality for lower unemployment. In this paper it is argued, that the trade …
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and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …
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We consider a dynamic macroeconomic model with households that regard relative affluence as social status. The measure of relative affluence can be the ratio to, or the difference from, the social average. The two specifications lead to quite different results: with the ratio specification full...
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Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) coverage figures suggest a time variation in the degree of wage indexation. In spite of this observation, most current literature conveniently assume a constant degree of indexation as this variable is not directly observable. This study intends to empirically...
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insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid … capital accumulation as a macroeconomic shock. In the empirical analysis, medium-term unemployment is explained by capital …According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the …
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the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …
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