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Imperfect labor mobility, urban unemployment and agricultural trade reform in Chile
A component of agricultural policy in Chile is the use of price bands to stabilize domestic price movements in selected agricultural crops and processed agricultural commodities. In the 1990s, the use of price bands for wheat, fats and oils, and sugar resulted in the equivalent of roughly a 22 percent ...
Taxes and the labor market
One of the defining features of the financial crisis of 2008?09 has been its persistent impact on the U.S. labor market with the unemployment rate roughly doubling from early 2008 through mid2010. This has ignited an intense debate on the appropriate stimulus response of fiscal policy. The debate has ...
Estimaciones de la Nairu para Chile
El objetivo de este ensayo es estimar la tasa de desempleo que no acelera la inflación (Nairu) para Chile. Su medición permite construir la brecha de desempleo, medida complementaria de actividad y brecha de producto, que los bancos centrales usan en forma regular junto a los demás indicadores que ...
Desempleo y consumo en Chile
El artículo estudia empíricamente el efecto del desempleo sobre el consumo agregado de bienes habituales en Chile entre 1990 y 2002. Utilizando un modelo de corrección de errores se encuentra que el desempleo rezagado tiene un efecto negativo y estadísticamente significativo sobre el crecimiento del ...
Has the U.S. wage phillips curve flattened? A semi-structural exploration
The deep and prolonged recession triggered by the global financial
crisis of 2007–2009 led to a large increase in the unemployment rate in
most advanced economies. Ten years later, at the time of writing this
paper, the recession has long ended, and the subsequent recoveries
have brought the ...
Pegs downward wage rigidity and unemployment: the role of financial structure
A characteristic of the current crisis in Europe is that countries in its periphery have found themselves increasingly cut off from international financial markets. In the present study we ask how such changes in the financial structure influence the welfare consequences of maintaining a fixed exchange ...
The liquidity approach to bubbles crises jobless recoveries and involuntary unemployment
Future generations will likely remember the turn of the 21st century as the time when mainstream macroeconomics was about to completely remove money and finance from its models and perished in the attempt. Before the subprime crisis macroeconomic/monetary theory reached a level of pristine perfection ...