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This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment … risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment … during employment but dismissal delays insure partially against the unemployment risk because of moral hazard. During the …
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reciprocal relationship. The variable considered are: unemployment, inflation, consumptions, investments and current accounts. We … between investment and unemployment, c) we show the revival of the Phillips curve, especially in Germany, d) we test for the … relationship between unemployment and the Government deficit, e) we show the existence of a relationship between unemployment and …
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By how much do employed households reduce their consumption when the aggregate unemployment rate rises? In Spain during … the Great Recession a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate was related to a strong drop in household … of their expectations on future income growth rates: the shadow of unemployment. Using consumption panel data that …
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This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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reciprocal relationship. The variables considered are: unemployment, inflation, consumptions, investments and current accounts …-Okun relationship between investment and unemployment, c) we show the revival of the Phillips curve, especially in Germany, d) we test … for the relationship between unemployment and the Government deficit, e) we show the existence of a relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795487
In this paper we analyse the consequences of changes in the consumption patterns on unemployment through an … multiequational model, in which we estimate a consumption function, an investment function and an unemployment rate equation, using a … and persistent shocks to consumption have long lasting effects on unemployment, both directly and indirectly, through …
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In this paper we analyse the consequences of changes in the consumption patterns on unemployment through an … multiequational model, in which we estimate a consumption function, an investment function and an unemployment rate equation, using a … and persistent shocks to consumption have long lasting effects on unemployment, both directly and indirectly, through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112096
In this paper we analyze the consequences of changes in the consumption patterns on unemployment through an …-equational model, in which we estimate a consumption function, an investment function and an unemployment rate equation, using a panel … persistent shocks to consumption have long lasting effects on unemployment, both directly and indirectly, through investment. Our …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with … institutional frameworks. Given that the coverage and generosity of social welfare institutions are both higher in the North, and …
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