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| Title: | | Demography, capital flows and unemployment  |
| Authors: | | Marchiori, Luca Pierrard, Olivier Sneessens, Henri R. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6094 |
| Abstract: | | This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of capital flows, because of stronger employment adjustments in comparison with a competitive economy. We next exploit the model to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past (1950-2010). We show that a policy reform in one country also has an impact on labor markets in other countries when capital is mobile. |
| Subjects: | | demographics capital flows overlapping generations general equilibrium unemployment |
| JEL: | | J11 F21 D91 C68 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201111213217 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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