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Resurgence in Indian inflation since 2007 was associated with sharp food and oil price inflation. Propagation … rather than persistent second round price effects that caused inflation. Output remained below potential. In such a structure … generally exceeded the fall in output. A large negative demand impulse over 2010-12 constrained growth more than inflation. The …
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A wage and economic policy programme for full employment, price stability, growth and equity was developed by two Swedish trade-union economists in the early post-war period. A restrictive macroeconomic policy, a wages policy of solidarity and an active labour market policy are the cornerstones...
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This book aims to study the consequences of the subprime crisis for New Caledonia, a French overseas Pacific territory. The situation of New-Caledonia is specific in many ways, since this territory is undergoing an institutional process of emancipation from France. On the first hand, New...
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In the early postwar years, two trade-union economists, Gösta Rehn and Rudolf Meidner, presented a Swedish alternative to Keynesianism. The so-called Rehn- Meidner model recommends restrictive macroeconomic policies, labor market policy programs and solidarity wages to combine price stability...
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inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the concepts of fair wages, salience and over …-reaction are tested using a State level rural wage data panel. The model predicts that a rise in food price inflation, non …-traded wages and productivity, reduction in net labor supply, rise in labor demand and employment in the traded goods sector would …
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This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane's (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...
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tend to be beneficial for productivity and for workers. Thus, when this rate slows, it is important to understand why. In … wages and productivity, a decline could indicate improvements for workers if it means that they are now better matched to …
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According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
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Previous research on the changing stratification structure in China's market transition overlooks stratification within the market sector and heterogeneity in market opportunities. This paper adopts a disaggregated perspective on the market sector to examine entry into self-employment in urban...
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The present paper contributes to the limited literature on the job reallocation dynamics in Indian manufacturing. The study is based on annual data from the Annual Survey of Industries for the years 2000-01 to 2014-15. The study finds job reallocation to be significantly high. Gross job...
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