Showing 1 - 10 of 372
general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636527
This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … job creation remains low making the return to a low unemployment rate impossible. The paper shows that in some cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635968
We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636543
We evaluate the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis that a more accommodative monetary policy could have greatly reduced the severity of the Great Depression. To do this, we first estimate a dynamic, general equilibrium model using data from the 1920s and 1930s. Although the model includes eight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636549
subsequent economic crisis. The aim of the text is to describe changes in the field of employment and unemployment, as well as …) in relation to employment and unemployment. The text includes a description of Estonia labour market institutions as well …, unemployment, active and passive labour market policy measures, social partners, social welfare reform, adaptation to the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242660
The present study aims to provide a succinct but comprehensive account that will allow a better understanding of the economic and social impact of the measures implemented in Greece. To this end, the study takes stock of the hitherto implementation of the programme to elucidate its multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242662
Over the course of 2008 and 2009, the world economy experienced one of the most serious recessions in modern times. In …, the situation may well still have further to play out: experience of previous recessions suggests that the full effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254607
Recovery Plan are promising. A stronger more co-ordinated response would help to soften the impact of much higher unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291902
The shock waves from the U.S. subprime crisis have intensified throughout the last two years and have by now reached almost all economies. The Commission economic forecasts clearly indicated that in Europe the recession would be the deepest since the foundation of the EU. The 2009 Brussels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291903
unemployment will inevitably lead to a non-negligible loss of potential output, i.e of structural productive capacities, in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291904