Capital accumulation and unemployment
Subtitle: new insights on the Nordic experience
By: by Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, Pablo F. Salvador
Contributors: Sala, Hector
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 3066; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 3066
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Capital stock; Scandinavia; Unemployment
Description: "This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues that capital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission channels of the capital stock effects, i.e. using variables like interest rates or investment ratios in the estimation of single-equation unemployment rate models. Here we advocate a different approach. We directly estimate the effects of capital stock in the labour market by applying the chain reaction theory of unemployment, and we find that capital stock is a major determinant of unemployment in the Nordic countries. In particular, the different unemployment experiences of these economies derive from the temporary (albeit prolonged) negative shocks to capital stock growth in Denmark and Sweden, and the permanent downturn of capital stock growth in Finland. We are thus able to explain why the crisis of the early 1990s had a more acute impact in Finland than in its twin economy, Sweden"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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