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Salarios, demanda agregada y desempeño económico en Colombia: un debate no resuelto
[Wages, aggregate demand and economic performance in Colombia: an unsolved debate]

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  • Loaiza Quintero, Osmar Leandro
  • Sierra Ríos, Ana Milena

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According to neoclassical economic theory, there is a negative relationship between real wages, and the level of output and employment. Therefore, neoclassical theory tends to favor policy measures that seek to diminish real wages and deregulate the labor market, explaining that poor economic performance and high unemployment is the result of sticky real wages. However, there are theories that hold an opposite point of view, which shows the issue is far from settled. One of them is explained briefly in this paper using a simple kaleckian model. Using de Bhaduri y Marglin (1990) macro-model, in which salaries may be related both negatively or positively to the level of output, empirical estimations are made to find what´s the nature of the relation between this two variables in Colombia. It is found that there is a positive relationship between the internal sector of the economy and the level of real wages. However, exports are negatively affected by salaries. Results seem to show that the total effect of real wages on output is negative.

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  • Loaiza Quintero, Osmar Leandro & Sierra Ríos, Ana Milena, 2010. "Salarios, demanda agregada y desempeño económico en Colombia: un debate no resuelto [Wages, aggregate demand and economic performance in Colombia: an unsolved debate]," MPRA Paper 42669, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Osmar Leandro Loaiza Quintero & Alexander Tobón Arias & Guillermo David Hincapié Vélez, 2017. "The impact of the functional distribution of income on gross domestic product: Colombia, 1970-2011," Lecturas de Economía, Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía, issue 86, pages 63-104, Enero - J.
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    Keywords

    Aggregate demand; job market; unemployment; post-keynesian economics;
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    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

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