A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector and human capital. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of the underground sector, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and...

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...

Many empirical studies show the paradoxical fact that service output in proportion to industrial output does not tend to decline, in spite of rising service prices. Baumol's "cost disease" model well explains rising service prices, but it simply assumes that the output proportion remains...