Unemployment Persistence and Capital Shortage : The Case of Trinidad and Tobago /

This paper examines the link between capital stock and unemployment persistence. An overlapping-generations model with endogenous labor supply and imperfect competition is presented. It is used to interpret the unusual persistence of unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago during the last twenty years....

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Main Author: Braumann, Benedikt
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/077
Online Access:Full text available on IMF