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In overlapping generations models with endogenous fertility wherein the retired partake of consumption but do not contribute to production (through their labor), fertility has a positive and a negative externality. These can be internalized through a child allowance (or tax) or a linkage between...
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An unfunded Social Security system faces the major risk, sometimes referred to as "political risk", that future generations modify or even suppress the contributions. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked...
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An unfunded Social Security system faces a major risk, sometimes referred to as ‘political risk’. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked from each newborn generation. The analysis is conducted in an...
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unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
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We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment … unemployment persistence by its adverse impact on growth, and may even destabilize the adjustment path. If this is the case, a … future fiscal consolidation is needed which further raises unemployment. These results are consistent with empirical evidence …
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We incorporate a wage bargaining structure in a dynamic general equilibrium model and show how this feature changes short and long-run properties of equilibria compared with a perfectly competitive setting. We discuss how employment, capital, and income shares respond to wage setting shocks and...
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unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetriesmay have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493505
unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetriesmay have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645266
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This paper develops an overlapping-generations model characterized by endogenous growth, unemployment, and pollution … unemployment benefits, and considers a replacement-ratio-neutral reform in whichthe environmental tax is devoted to cutting the … employees' rate of contribution to unemployment insurance. Under this reform, (i) the growth rate is increased, the unemployment …
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