Unemployment, capital accumulation and labour market institutions in the Great Recession

被引:16
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作者
Stockhammer, Engelbert [1 ]
Guschanski, Alexander [1 ]
Koehler, Karsten [1 ]
机构
[1] Kingston Univ, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England
关键词
unemployment; NAIRU; post-Keynesian economics; panel analysis;
D O I
10.4337/ejeep.2014.02.05
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper restates the post-Keynesian view of unemployment within a NAIRU framework. In the short run, the private effective labour demand need not be downward sloping because of debt deflation and wage-led demand regimes. In the medium run, the NAIRU will be endogenous because of the social norm character of wage setting and the supply-side effects of capital accumulation. Capital investment rather than labour market institutions is the crucial variable that explains changes in unemployment performance. We provide econometric evidence that the post-Keynesian view holds up well in the recession following the crisis of 2008.
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页码:182 / 194
页数:13
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