Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment
Author: Robert James Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521531429
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Author: Robert James Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521531429
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Author: Robert M. Solow
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780262041102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this book extend and elaborate on many of the important ideas Solow has either originated or developed in the past three decades.
Author: Pierpaolo Benigno
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 1455209597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run productivity growth and (ii) a rise in the variance of productivity growth. Evidence based on U.S. time series and on an international panel strongly supports these predictions. The empirical specifications featuring the variance of productivity growth can account for two U.S. episodes which a linear model based only on long-run productivity growth cannot fully explain. These are the decline in long-run unemployment over the 1980s and its rise during the late 2000s.
Author: Michael Bräuninger
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 40
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper shows how misleading is the facile contrast of Europe following a path of high productivity growth, high unemployment, and relatively greater income equality, in contrast to the opposite path being pursued by the United States. While structural shocks may initially create a positive tradeoff between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of adjustment involving capital accumulation or decumulation that in principle can eliminate the tradeoff. The main theoretical contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment tradeoff might emerge and how it might subsequently disappear as this dynamic adjustment path is set in motion. Its empirical work develops a new data base for levels and growth rates of output per hour, capital per hour, and multifactor productivity in the G-7 nations both for the aggregate economy and for nine sub-sectors. It provides regression estimates that decompose observed differences in productivity growth across sectors. It finds that much of the productivity growth advantage of the four large European countries over the United States is explained by convergence and by more rapid capital accumulation, and that the only significant effect of higher unemployment is to cause capital accumulation to decelerate, thus reducing the growth rate of output per hour relative to multi-factor productivity.
Author: Henri L. F. de Groot
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloping theoretical models that contribute to a better understanding of the wealth of nations, particularly those factors determining economic growth, unemployment, and the sectoral composition of economies, de Groot (environmental economics, Free U., Amsterdam) addresses the major indicators of economic performance: productivity levels, productivity growth, unemployment rates, and degree of industrialization. Special issues include the macroeconomic consequences of outsourcing and downsizing, causes of deindustrialization, the role of trade unions and efficiency-wage considerations, and the relationship between growth and unemployment in a dual labor market. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Xiaojie Ning
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Willi Semmler
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOkun's (1962) seminal paper is an important study on economic growth and unemployment but a detailed exploration of the effect of productivity growth on unemployment has been left aside. Yet, the relationship between productivity growth and unemployment has been debated since long. In this paper we present stylized facts on the link between productivity growth and unemployment for the short and long run, and present model variants that demonstrate that in the short run productivity growth can have a negative effect on employment - or may even increase unemployment - while in the long run the relationship between productivity growth and employment are likely to co-vary positively. Using US data, empirically we decompose the time series of unemployment rate and productivity growth into long run and short run components and show empirical evidence that the long run and short run components co-vary as predicted by some theories.
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1989-10-26
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1451952171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe methodology used in this paper has three distinguishing features: the natural rate of unemployment and potential output are jointly estimated; estimation integrates wage and price data with “real” and structural data; and third, the methodology encompasses many of the methods found in the literature. The results indicate that potential output growth has recovered somewhat during the early 1980s, but remains below the rapid rates of increase in the late 1960s. The natural rate, after rising during the late 1960s and the 1970s, is found to have declined in the 1980s. The paper concludes with an assessment of medium-term prospects for potential output and-the natural rate.
Author: John Haltiwanger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 022645407X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeasuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges brings together and unprecedented group of economists, data providers, and data analysts to discuss research on the state of entrepreneurship and to address the challenges in understanding this dynamic part of the economy. Each chapter addresses the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurial firms contribute to economies and standards of living. The book also investigates heterogeneity in entrepreneurs, challenges experienced by entrepreneurs over time, and how much less we know than we think about entrepreneurship given data limitations. This volume will be a groundbreaking first serious look into entrepreneurship in the NBER's Income and Wealth series.