Economia
O multiplicador do pleno emprego
The full employment productivity multiplier
Advanced economies, here and abroad, have been having big problems with both of these variables. Here in the U.S., our labor market has been at full employment only 30 percent of the time since 1979. No wonder workers have had very little in the way of bargaining clout.
In recent years, slow productivity growth has surfaced as another fundamental problem throughout the “G-7” countries. This fact should disabuse you of some country-specific policy problem. It’s hard to blame our tax code, e.g., when this slowdown is occurring across all these different countries with very different tax regimes.
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Um Artigo Do Roubini
Num artigo de Roubini (via Sedes) no qual ele refere que : "For the Club Med members of the euro zone – Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal – public-debt problems come on top of a loss of international competitiveness. These countries had already lost...
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Boundaries
• Taking the data at face value, we find that GDP growth in the 4 quarters up to 2Q2012 has slowed down to 1.2%, while employment growth during the same period reached 1.9%, developments that suggest productivity coming down by 0.7%;• That...
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Sophie’s Choice
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Produtividade Global
The global productivity slump: Common and country-specific factors
Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, Kwanho Shin 17 September 2015
Productivity growth is slowing down around the world. The question is what lies behind this phenomenon and...
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Teorias Da Grande Estagnação
Kenneth Rogoff Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis? CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades. Was the global financial crisis a harsh but transitory setback...
Economia