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business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …
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intratemporal first-order condition for labor. Allowing for a realistic degree of involuntary unemployment, coupled with preferences …
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There is much evidence that relative income concern reduces subjective wellbeing and raises labour supply - "keeping up with the Joneses" (KUJ), while increasing use of social media and growing inequality encourage comparison. Models with one or two agent-types generally miss the policy relevant...
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This paper analyses the influence of norms of fairness on wage formation. Fairness is defined by "real-wage" and "relative-wage" norms that relate wage offers to workers' own current wage and to the wages of other groups of workers, and, to avoid shirking, firms pay fair wages. The wage norms...
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Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...
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This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
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We explain the public's support for the minimum wage (MW) institution despite economists' warnings that the MW is a "blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the government engages in redistribution through the public...
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unemployment benefits; we find that the MW is preferred by the majority of workers (even when the unemployed receive very generous … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods … given generosity of the unemployment benefit scheme, the maximum, politically viable, MW is lower than in the absence of in …
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unemployment benefits; we find that the MW is preferred by the majority of workers (even when the unemployed receive very generous … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods … given generosity of the unemployment benefit scheme, the maximum, politically viable, MW is lower than in the absence of in …
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We propose a multi-country model with occupational choice, heterogeneous firms, unemployment, and revenue … tariffs in the range of 14 percent for the U.S. to 43 percent for China, and tend to increase unemployment and income …
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