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Underemployment in a Computable General Equilibrium Model

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  • Roberto Roson

    (Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Loyola Andalusia University; GREEN Bocconi University Milan)

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This paper presents a methodology to account, in a computable general equilibrium model, for the presence of underemployment in an economic system. The methodology is based on the estimation of a matrix, mapping different categories of workers to levels of educational attainment. A procedure is proposed, which allows recalculating the matrix after the realization of a simulation with a CGE model, when employment levels are varied. In this way, a new matrix is made consistent with the simulation results, identifying a new equilibrium in the labor market, which entails a different combination of unemployment and underemployment.

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  • Roberto Roson, 2022. "Underemployment in a Computable General Equilibrium Model," Working Papers 2022:17, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
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    1. Roberto Roson & Emanuela Ghignoni, 2023. "A Numerical Simulation of Educational Mismatch in the Italian Labor Market," Working Papers in Public Economics 241, Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Roma.

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    Keywords

    Underemployment; Unemployment; Labor Market; Computable General Equilibrium Models;
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    JEL classification:

    • C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models
    • C82 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access
    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • J82 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Labor Force Composition

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