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The distributional effects of the minimum wage are analysed in a model where skilled and unskilled labour enter the production function. It is argued that distributional goals are best achieved by letting the labour market clear and achieving redistribution through taxes and transfers.
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Economic decisions such as occupational and entrepreneurial choices may violate true comparative advantage when economic agents are uncertain about which activity best matches their talents. If relative performance varies over the business cycle (for instance, if downturns affect...
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union in the presence of stabilization policy, unionized labour markets and monopolistically competitive price setting firms … and a unified stabilization policy are evaluated. …
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We analyze empirically the cyclical behavior of fiscal policy among a group of 23 OECD countries. We introduce a framework to capture fiscal policy stance in a way that brings together automatic stabilizers and discretionary fiscal policy. We show that, for most countries, automatic changes in...
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This paper studies the effect of foreign aid on economic stabilization. Following Alesina and Drazen (1991), we model … transferred sufficiently early into the game leads to earlier stabilization; but aid decided or transferred too late is …
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When governments attempt stabilization why do they not undertake a programme certain to succeed? The paper discusses … one-shot game in which policy-makers are uncertain about the response of the instruments or the post-stabilization … economic environment. As a positive theory of stabilization, the paper identifies the factors that increase the chances of …
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close substitutes? What have been the implications of the EMS for the longer-run stabilization of real exchange rates …
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early stages of stabilization. Other countries, like Bolivia, had already run the course and stabilized or, like Mexico, had … avoided the extreme experience and opted for stabilization promptly and decisively. The lessons from these case studies, and … paper investigates the dynamics of high inflation and the essential steps in stabilization. …
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We present and analyse an optimizing model which explains the counter-intuitive effects of fiscal policy in terms of expectations. If government spending follows an upward-trending stochastic process, which the public believes may fall sharply when it reaches specific `target points', then...
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This Paper studies the welfare implications of the location decisions of innovative newcomers that, though spinning off an industrial district, may choose whether to locate inside or outside its borders. Even if this choice has always been relevant, globalization has turned the issue, whether to...
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