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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is ‘involuntary’). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the ‘non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment’. We then …
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construct a monetary model in which: i) the unemployed are worse off than the employed, i.e. unemployment is involuntary and ii … of the labor force and unemployment rate to these three shocks. …
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The job guarantee (JG) is a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has...
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I start with a moral axiom: the necessary (but not sufficient) condition for a just and equitable society is that its citizens and its government are committed to establishing and maintaining full employment of its citizens. That is to say, anyone who is willing to work under existing conditions...
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The holy grail of Keynesian theorists during much of the postwar period has been to fully microfound meaningful wage rigidity (MWR), defined by its capacity to rationally suppress wage recontracting. This paper accomplishes that longstanding goal! MWR is shown to be a necessary condition for the...
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Unemployment insurance experience rating imposes higher payroll tax rates on firms that have laid off more workers in … unemployment with heterogeneous firms and realistic UI financing. The model predicts that higher experience rating reduces both job ….4%. While the unemployment rate falls on average by .21 percentage points, the effect on tax revenues is ambiguous. The model …
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The job guarantee (JG) is a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816870
, price inflation, labor force participation, productivity, and unemployment. The evolution of real GDP depends only on …
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is ‘involuntary'). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the ‘non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment'. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143337
We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is 'involuntary'). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the 'non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment'. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143723