Title: Endogenous Technological Change, Income Distribution, and Unemployment with Inter-Class Conflict
Abstract: This paper presents a Kaleckian model of growth that incorporates endogenous technological change. The model endogenously determines the rate of capacity utilization, the rate of economic growth, income distribution, and the employment rate besides technological change. The paper shows that whether or not an increase in the relative bargaining power of workers raises the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate depends on which regime is realized in the long-run equilibrium. If, for example, the long-run equilibrium corresponds to the wage-led growth regime, a rise in the relative bargaining power of workers leads to a decline in the unemployment rate. This result is never obtained from the mainstream NAIRU model.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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