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In the conventional textbook demand-supply model of competitive labour markets, introduction of a minimum wage above the market-clearing level must reduce employment. Empirical findings suggest, however, that this might not always be the case, which appears to be most readily explained by...
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horizontal and vertical innovation match financial data well due to countercyclical dividends which are either procyclical or … acyclical in US data. Countercyclical dividends redistribute income from consumption towards investment in innovation improving … growth prospects which are reflected in asset prices. In the horizontal innovation model of Kung and Schmid (2015 …
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Firing frictions and renegotiation costs affect worker and firm preferences for rigid wages versus individualized Nash bargaining in a standard model of equilibrium unemployment, in which workers vary by observable skill. Rigid wages permit savings on renegotiation costs and prevent workers from...
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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
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This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assesses their implications for inflation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...
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This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market, and assesses their implications for inflation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behavior. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...
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innovation, and sector-specific investments. We find that the implementation of Chinese government carbon policies until 2020 … induced innovation, and rising energy prices in the reference case reduces welfare losses significantly. We argue that …
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. The scope for innovation is reduced when we consider direct financial investment in the lab, or elastic labor supply. We …
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