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The role of the wage-productivity gap in economic activity
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - In: International review of applied economics 28 (2014) 4, pp. 436-459
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355847
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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286279
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822664
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Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147295
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … stylised labour demand equation and show that the labour share is a driving force of employment. We substantiate our analytical … exposition by providing empirical models of wage setting and employment equations for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740441
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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955891
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265548
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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276417
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The wage-productivity gap revisited: Is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … stylised labour demand equation and show that the labour share is a driving force of employment. We substantiate our analytical … exposition by providing empirical models of wage setting and employment equations for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276471
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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278673