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Sustainable Capitalism: Full-Employment Flexicurity Growth with Real Wage Rigidities

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  • Toichiro Asada

    (Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan)

  • Peter Flaschel

    (Univeristy of Bielefeld, Germany)

  • Alfred Greiner

    (Univeristy of Bielefeld, Germany)

  • Christian Proano

    (Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) at the Hans Boeckler Foundation)

Abstract

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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  • Toichiro Asada & Peter Flaschel & Alfred Greiner & Christian Proano, 2010. "Sustainable Capitalism: Full-Employment Flexicurity Growth with Real Wage Rigidities," IMK Working Paper 5-2010, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
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    Keywords

    Flexicurity; employer of ¯rst resort; Solovian growth; company pension funds; sustainability;
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    JEL classification:

    • 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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