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model to identify four structural innovations: aggregate demand, labour supply, wage bargaining, and productivity; (iii … share responded mainly to productivity, aggregate demand, and wage bargaining shocks during the immediate post-war era …; whereas wage bargaining, productivity, and aggregate demand shocks mattered most during the Great Moderation. Second, these …
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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Using a normalized CES function with factor-augmenting technical progress, we estimate a supply-side system of the US economy from 1953 to 1998. Avoiding potential estimation biases that have occurred in earlier studies and putting a high emphasis on the consistency of the data set, required by...
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Using a normalized CES function with factor-augmenting technical progress, we estimate a supply-side system of the US economy from 1953 to 1998. Avoiding potential estimation biases that have occurred in earlier studies and putting a high emphasis on the consistency of the data set, required by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292788
Empirical research based on the Bhaduri/Marglin-variant of the Kaleckian model has recently shown that aggregate demand in many medium-sized and large open economies tends to be wage-led in the medium to long run, even in a period of increasing globalisation. In this paper we extend this type of...
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We analyse the effects of interest rate variations on the rates of capacity utilisation, capital accumulation and profit in a simple post-Kaleckian distribution and growth model. This model gives rise to different potential accumulation regimes depending on the values of the parameters in the...
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nonunionized firms. However, little research has been devoted to examining the implications of ESOPs for collective bargaining or … involve a strike. We examine these predictions using U.S. bargaining data from 1970 to 1995. The data suggest that ESOPs do … improved bargaining efficiency, we find that the announcement of a union ESOP leads to a 50 percent larger stock market …
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-contractible but can be included in extended collective bargaining when workers participate in management, but employment is still … traditional bargaining over wages to extended (but still second-best) bargaining can generate a Pareto welfare improvement. -- job …-satisfaction; bargaining ; unemployment …
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greater when the ESOP is the product of collective bargaining or employees own a larger stake of firm equity. Employee well …
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