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Capital accumulation, unemployment, and the putty-clay

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Javier Birchenall () (Department of Economics. University of California, Santa Barbara)

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This note studies the dynamics of labor markets in a putty-clay framework. It analyzes the evolution of job creation and job destruction in an economy without market frictions. Unemployment and labor market flows emerge under putty-clay technologies because low productive jobs become unused factors. As capital accumulates, firms destruct low productive jobs by obsolescence. Simultaneously, the use of capital intensive technologies creates new jobs by the low substitution between capital and labor.

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Volume (Year): 5 (2004)
Issue (Month): 19 ()
Pages: 1-8
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Keywords: capital accumulation; labor markets; putty-clay;

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