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generalize the original Keynesian intuition. It shows in fact that unemployment emerges as the result of a lack of co-ordination … equilibrium when subject to a (negative) demand shock. He maintains that money wages cuts may not help reabsorb unemployment, as … cumulative process propels the economy far away the full employment equilibrium. The consideration of co-ordination failures in …
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We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
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producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …
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We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296865
Axel Leijonhufvud's On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Keynes (1968) was a seminal contribution to the literature on what came to be known as the micro-foundations of macro-economics, but its Marshallian approach, which involved analysing the disequilibrium dynamics of markets in which...
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The paper investigates the relation between effective demand, income distribution and unemployment empirically. Its aim …, unemployment and the growth of labor productivity is estimated. A general post-Keynesian model following the lines of Kalecki and …
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. Furthermore, they fail to allow for quantity rationing and to model unemployment as a catastrophic event. The macroeconomics based …
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In this study, a Kaleckian-Post-Keynesian macroeconomic model, which is an extended version of the Bhaduri and Marglin (1990) model, serves as the starting point. The merit of a Kaleckian model for our purposes is that it highlights the dual function of wages as a component of aggregate demand...
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Does the public believe that fiscal and monetary stimulus reduce unemployment? I present survey evidence on this … monetary stimulus. In fact, the typical respondent believes that an increase in government spending makes unemployment worse … worsens unemployment while a Fed interest rate cut improves it. I show how opinion varies by political party, educational …
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of long run equilibrium of unemployment. The model we employ has at its center the relation between growth and … distribution. Growth can be either wage led or profit led. Distribution itself is a function of the unemployment rate, with higher … unemployment leading to a higher profit share. We use Okun's Law to close the model, making the change of the rate of unemployment …
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