The infrastructure investment effects on GDP growth have been of interest to economists and policy makers in the past 20 years. Around thirty studies have investigated the effect of infrastructure investment on the growth of GDP, resulting in 346 point estimates of the effect. Meta-regression...

This paper is about the conventional search models of unemployment. An as considerable number of authors point out that negatively - sloped Beverage curve is the result of an aggregate demand shock. The shock that creates a positive movement between vacancies and unemployment “loops” around...

In this paper we are thinking like Keynesians. In the first part we are modeling economy by using Post Keynesian Stock-Flow consistent model (PK-SCF), later we employ New- Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model (NK-DSGE). Keynesian SFC practitioners strongly believe that their...

In the past employee interest and influence have been presented mainly through trade unions and collective bargaining (economic regulation). Socially optimal levels of co-determination may be prevented by the existence of high fixed costs of establishing councils. Job security can resolve the...

This study investigates the relation between macroeconomic variables such as real GDP growth, inflation, unemployment rate, trade deficit and the exchange regimes. The idea is to explore whether the macroeconomic indicators give better result when are under the influence of fixed or fluctuating...

This paper argues that monetary policy matters in short-run and that it affects unemployment, and prices and wages in near-rational firms. Those profit-maximizer firms are adjusting prices in accordance with consumer expectations and wages are set to be fair accordingly to the workers...

In this paper are presented essential themes in the subject of personnel economics. In the first part analysis has been conducted on the impact of peer pressure on workplace behaviour. Then again models for compensation structures within firms, and their influence on the utility of work by...

In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers from Becker’s human capital theory and their association with the workers’ productivity. In the second part of the paper the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation...

In this paper it is described the school of neo-Keynesians (Akerlof and Stiglitz are in the group of "Hard" New-Keynesians, that don’t accept New neo-classical synthesis, i.e. Dynamic Stochastic General equilibrium models-DSGE), that as a basic source of instability in the economies view the...

This book investigates the impact of the social security system on final consumption, with the overlapping generations model for Macedonia and panel of countries. As hypothesis we set that social security reduces savings. Our results show that in all our models the average growth of social...