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Tax reforms under market distortions in product and labour markets
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, James R. - In: European Economic Review 61 (2013) C, pp. 28-42
Using a two-agent model comprised of capitalists and workers, this paper examines the importance of imperfect competition in product and labour markets in determining the welfare effects of tax reform. The reform considered consists of eliminating the capital tax alongside a concurrent rise in...
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Understanding the welfare effects of unemployment insurance policy in general equilibrium
Mukoyama, Toshihiko - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PB, pp. 347-368
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of unemployment insurance reforms in a general equilibrium incomplete market model. In particular, it decomposes the total welfare effect for each individual into different factors. I consider a model where the consumers face an uninsurable unemployment...
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Countercyclical fiscal policy and gender employment : evidence from the G-7 countries
Akitoby, Bernardin; Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We answer this … question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using … the local projection method, we find that, during recessions, a positive fiscal spending shock increases female employment …
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IMPLICATIONS OF AGGREGATE DEMAND ON EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY
Herman, Emilia - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2011) 16, pp. 132-143
The contribution of aggregate demand to employment creation is a fact universally accepted in the specialty literature …, there being the idea that between aggregate demand and employment there is a direct and bivalent relationship. In our study …) on employment in Romania, in the period between 1990 and 2009. The results of this research show that, in Romania, in the …
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Social security and retirement across the OECD
Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 47 (2014) C, pp. 300-316
Employment to population ratios differ markedly across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD … study postulates that differences in social security features explain many differences in employment to population ratios at …
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Countercyclical fiscal policy and gender employment: Evidence from the G-7 countries
Akitoby, Bernardin; Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We answer this … question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using … the local projection method, we find that, during recessions, a positive fiscal spending shock increases female employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553754
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Synthesizing feminist and post-Keynesian/Kaleckian economics for a purple–green–red transition
Onaran, Özlem; Oyvat, Cem - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 20 (2023) 2, pp. 317-337
The aim of this article is to discuss why we should synthesize feminist and post-Keynesian/Kaleckian economics. We answer three related questions. Why does post-Keynesian economics need feminist economics? Why does feminist economics need post-Keynesian macroeconomics? Finally, what is the...
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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 1 (2021), pp. 1-32
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...
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Synthesizing feminist and post-Keynesian/Kaleckian economics for a purple-green-red transition
Onaran, Özlem; Oyvat, Cem - In: European journal of economics and economic policies : … 20 (2023) 2, pp. 317-337
The aim of this article is to discuss why we should synthesize feminist and post-Keynesian/Kaleckian economics. We answer three related questions. Why does post-Keynesian economics need feminist economics? Why does feminist economics need post-Keynesian macroeconomics? Finally, what is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433732
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Money Creation, Employment and Economic Stability: The Monetary Theory of Unemployment and Inflation
Parguez, Alain - In: Panoeconomicus 55 (2008) 1, pp. 39-67
paper derives the employment function in the modern monetary economy. Thereby it is explained that full employment policy is … explained that there is no trade-off between full employment and sustainable price stability. …
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