Fiscal Consolidation and Public Wages /

A New Keynesian model with government production, public compensation, and unemployment is fit to U.S. data to study the macroeconomic and fiscal effects of public wage reductions. We find that accounting for the type of government spending is crucial for its macroeconomic implications. Although red...

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Main Author: Chang, Juin-Jen
Other Authors: Lin, Hsieh-Yu, Susan Yang, Shu-Chun, Traum, Nora
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/125
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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