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This study presents an overlapping-generations model featuring endogenous growth, collective wage-bargaining, and probabilistic voting over fiscal policy. We charac- terize a Markov-perfect political equilibrium of the voting game within and across generations and show the following results....
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In this paper we focus on the impact of involuntary unemployment on wage formation using experimental evidence. We use … twofold: on the one hand, we are interested in analyzing the relation between involuntary unemployment and wages; on the other … results show that unemployment has a negative impact on wages. Moreover, there is a positive correlation between wage and …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the main determinants of entrepreneurial activities across three groups of countries over the period 2004–2008, by specifically examining the importance of institutional setting and economic growth on entrepreneurial activities. The...
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worsened - employment rates fell, unemployment peaked and real wages sharply fell - as well as a significant recovery since … 2004. At present, unemployment rates are located at a historical minimum. Also, since 2007 labor earning inequality started … the recent national dialogue promoted by the MTSS. Secondly, although total unemployment is no longer considered a concern …
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The aim of this paper is to explain the Uruguayan unemployment dynamic using the theoretical framework of the Chain … Reaction Theory (CRT). Changes in unemployment are viewed as “chain reactions” of responses to external shocks, working their … whether the long term unemployment rate would converge to equilibrium level or is explained by the interplay between external …
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recession of 1997-98. To address the unemployment challenge New Zealand needs to supplement existing job search assistance with …
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a noncompetitive labor market and unemployment into the growth models with …
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As unemployment surged during the Great Recession and subsequent recovery, older workers were less likely than their …
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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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