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Sustainable capitalism: Full-employment flexicurity growth with real wage rigidities

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  • Asada, Toichiro
  • Flaschel, Peter
  • Greiner, Alfred
  • Proaño, Christian R.

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In this paper we present a model of flexicurity capitalism that exhibits a second labor market with the government as an employer of first resort, where all workers not employed by firms in the private sector find meaningful employment. We show that the model exhibits a unique interior steady state which is asymptotically stable under real wage adjustment dynamics of the type considered in Blanchard and Katz (1999), and under a type of Okun's Law that links the level of utilization of firms to their hiring and firing decision. The introduction of a company pension fund can be shown to contribute to the viability of the analyzed economic system. However, when credit is incorporated in the model, in place of savings-driven supply side fluctuations in economic activity, investment-driven demand side business cycle fluctuations (of a probably much more volatile type) can take place.

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  • Asada, Toichiro & Flaschel, Peter & Greiner, Alfred & Proaño, Christian R., 2011. "Sustainable capitalism: Full-employment flexicurity growth with real wage rigidities," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 77(3), pages 248-264, March.
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    Flexicurity Employer of first resort Solovian growth Company pension funds Sustainability;

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    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government

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