Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 162-186Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2017.02.005
Keywords
Involuntary unemployment; Aggregate demand; Wage determination; Labour market regimes; Keynesian coordination failures; Agent-based models
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Funding
- European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme [649186]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [2015/09760-3]
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Wages are an element of cost crucially affecting the competitiveness of individual firms. But the wage bill is also a crucial element of aggregate demand. Hence it could be that more flexible and fluid labour markets, while allowing for faster inter-firm reallocation of labour, may also render the whole economic system more fragile, more prone to recession, and more volatile. In this work, we investigate some conditions under which such a conjecture applies. The paper presents an agent-based model that investigates the effects of two archetypes of capitalism - in terms of regimes of labour governance defined by the mechanisms of wage determination, firing, labour protection and productivity gains sharing - upon (i) labour market regularities and (ii) macroeconomic dynamics (long-term rates of growth, GDP fluctuations, unemployment rates, inequality, etc.). The model is built upon the Keynes meets Schumpeter family of models (Dosi et al., 2010), explicitly incorporating different microfounded labour market regimes. Our results show that seemingly more rigid labour markets and labour relations are conducive to coordination successes leading to higher and smoother growth. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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