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Free Factor Unemployment

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  • Oslington, Paul

    (Alphacrucis College, Sydney, Australia)

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It is well known that introducing various distortions into neoclassical general equilibrium models generates unemployment. This paper shows how unemployment can occur in the absence of such distortions, with particular patterns of technology, prices and factor endowments. For a technology with a labour saturation point, the marginal product of labour can fall to zero under particular market conditions, so that labour is in excess supply regardless of the wage rate. This type of unemployment can occur in the agricultural sector of developing economies, depression economies, and the rising urban underclass. Disoccupazione free factor È noto che introducendo distorsioni nel modello neoclassico di equilibrio generale si crea disoccupazione. Questo articolo dimostra come si può creare disoccupazione in assenza di tali distorsioni, attraverso particolari modelli di tecnologia, prezzo e dotazione di fattori. Nelle tecnologie con un punto di saturazione dell’occupazione, il prodotto marginale del lavoro può scendere a zero in determinate condizioni di mercato, così che ci sarà un eccesso di offerta di lavoro indipendentemente dal livello dei salari. Questo tipo di disoccupazione si può verificare nel settore agricolo delle economie in via di sviluppo, delle economie in depressione e nelle classi sociali urbane.

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  • Oslington, Paul, 2021. "Free Factor Unemployment," Economia Internazionale / International Economics, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato Agricoltura di Genova, vol. 74(2), pages 225-244.
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    Keywords

    Unemployment; General Equilibrium; Development; Zero Wages;
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    JEL classification:

    • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General

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