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One-Pager No. 47
October 06, 2014
Growth for Whom?
AbstractIn the postwar period, income growth has become more inequitably distributed with virtually every subsequent economic expansion. From 2009 to 2012, while the economy was recovering from one of the biggest economic downturns in recent memory, the top 1 percent took home 95 percent of the income gains. To reverse this pattern, Research Associate Pavlina […]
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Working Paper No. 789
March 03, 2014
Πλήρης Απασχόληση
AbstractΕίναι κοινώς γνωστό ότι ο John Maynard Keynes υπήρξε ο βασικός υποστηρικτής του κρατικού παρεμβατισμού για την αντιμετώπιση της ύφεσης και της ανεργίας. Αυτό που δεν είναι ευρέως γνωστό είναι ότι οι σύγχρονες «κεϋνσιανές πολιτικές» δεν έχουν τίποτα το κοινό με τα μέτρα πολιτικής που ο ίδιος ο Keynes θεωρούσε απαραίτητα για την επίτευξη της […]
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Working Paper No. 789
March 03, 2014
Full Employment
AbstractIt is common knowledge that John Maynard Keynes advocated bold government action to deal with recessions and unemployment. What is not commonly known is that modern “Keynesian policies” bear little, if any, resemblance to the policy measures Keynes himself believed would guarantee true full employment over the long run. This paper corrects this misconception and […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
January 30, 2014
The Social Enterprise Model for a Job Guarantee in the United States
AbstractThe job guarantee is a proposal that provides greater macroeconomic stability and secures a fundamental human right. Despite the economic and moral merits of this policy, often the program is rejected because of concerns about its administration. How would the program be implemented? Who will create the jobs? Can work be found for every unemployed […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
January 30, 2014
Το υπόδειγμα της κοινωνικής επιχείρησης για εγγυημένη απασχόληση στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες
AbstractΗ πρόταση για εγγυημένη απασχόληση συμβάλλει στη μακροοικονομική σταθερότητα και εξασφαλίζει ένα θεμελιώδες ανθρώπινο δικαίωμα. Ωστόσο, παρά τα οικονομικά και ηθικά πλεονεκτήματα αυτής της πολιτικής, το πρόγραμμα πολύ συχνά απορρίπτεται λόγω ανησυχιών σχετικά με τη διαχείρισή του. Πώς θα εφαρμοστεί το πρόγραμμα; Ποιος θα δημιουργήσει τις θέσεις εργασίας; Μπορεί να λειτουργήσει για κάθε άνεργο που […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 128
April 20, 2013
From Safety Nets to Economic Empowerment
AbstractSocial protection systems comprise public policies designed to prevent or alleviate economic insecurity and poverty. Throughout the developing world, social protection strategies and the dialogue surrounding them have recently been undergoing an important evolution. In this policy brief, Senior Scholar and Director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program Rania Antonopoulos highlights the opportunities […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 128
April 20, 2013
Από τα δίχτυα ασφαλείας στην οικονομική ενδυνάμωση
AbstractΤα προγράμματα κοινωνικής προστασίας περιλαμβάνουν δημόσιες πολιτικές που είναι σχεδιασμένες για να εμποδίσουν ή να απαλείψουν την ανασφάλεια και τη φτώχεια. Σε όλο τον αναπτυσσόμενο κόσμο, οι στρατηγικές κοινωνικής προστασίας και ο διάλογος γύρω από αυτές εξελίσσονται ραγδαία. Στο παρόν κείμενο πολιτικής, η Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου, Senior Scholar και διευθύντρια του προγράμματος για την ισότητα των […]
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Working Paper No. 757
March 11, 2013
Expanding Social Protection in Developing Countries
AbstractThis paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women’s empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it is linked to economic and social policy. Next, it reviews the context, […]
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Working Paper No. 732
September 26, 2012
Πέρα από την πλήρη απασχόληση
AbstractΤα τελευταία δεκαπέντε χρόνια, η δυνατότητα της πρότασης του εργοδότη της έσχατης προσφυγής να επιτύχει πλήρη απασχόληση και σταθερότητα τιμών έχει συζητηθεί εκτενώς στη βιβλιογραφία. Η ανησυχία, ωστόσο, για το εάν ο εργοδότης της έσχατης προσφυγής παράγει μακροοικονομικά οφέλη αλλά με την προσφορά χαμηλόμισθων θέσεων εργασίας που δεν οδηγούν πουθενά και οι οποίες αποτελούν περαιτέρω […]
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Working Paper No. 732
September 26, 2012
Beyond Full Employment
AbstractOver the past decade and a half the ability of the employer-of-last-resort (ELR) proposal to deliver full employment and price stability has been discussed at length in the literature. A different issue has received relatively little attention—namely, the concern that even when the ELR produces these macroeconomic benefits, it does so by offering “low-paying” “dead-end” […]
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Working Paper No. 719
May 09, 2012
Επαναπροσδιορίζοντας τη δημοσιονομική πολιτική μετά τη Μεγάλη Κάμψη
AbstractΤο κείμενο αξιολογεί τις πρωτοβουλίες δημοσιονομικής πολιτικής που εφαρμόστηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια της Μεγάλης Κάμψης στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Η συγγραφέας του θεωρεί ότι, παρά το γεγονός ότι οι μη συμβατικές δημοσιονομικές πολιτικές που ήταν προσανατολισμένες προς τον χρηματοοικονομικό τομέα επισκίασαν τις συμβατικές αντικυκλικές προσπάθειες σταθεροποίησης προς τον πραγματικό τομέα της οικονομίας, η σχετική απογοητευτική επίπτωση […]
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Working Paper No. 719
May 09, 2012
Reorienting Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession
AbstractThe paper evaluates the fiscal policy initiatives during the Great Recession in the United States. It argues that, although the nonconventional fiscal policies targeted at the financial sector dwarfed the conventional countercyclical stabilization efforts directed toward the real sector, the relatively disappointing impact on employment was a result of misdirected funding priorities combined with an […]
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Policy Notes No. 2
March 19, 2012
Full Employment through Social Entrepreneurship
AbstractThe conventional approach of fiscal policy is to create jobs by boosting private investment and growth. This approach is backward, says Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva. Policy must begin by fixing the unemployment situation because growth is a byproduct of strong employment—not the other way around. Tcherneva proposes a bottom-up approach based on community programs […]
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Working Paper No. 707
February 15, 2012
The Euro Crisis and the Job Guarantee
AbstractEuroland is in a crisis that is slowly but surely spreading from one periphery country to another; it will eventually reach the center. The blame is mostly heaped upon supposedly profligate consumption by Mediterraneans. But that surely cannot apply to Ireland and Iceland. In both cases, these nations adopted the neoliberal attitude toward banks that […]
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Working Paper No. 707
February 15, 2012
H ευρω-κρίση και η εγγυημένη απασχόληση
AbstractH Ευρωχώρα βρίσκεται σε κρίση, που αργά αλλά σταθερά εξαπλώνεται από τη μία χώρα της περιφέρειας στην άλλη. Στο τέλος, θα φτάσει και στο κέντρο. Για την κατάσταση αυτή κατηγορούνται οι υποτιθέμενες σπάταλες χώρες της Μεσογείου. Αλλά η εξήγηση αυτή σίγουρα δεν μπορεί να ισχύει για την Ιρλανδία και την Ισλανδία. Και στις δύο περιπτώσεις, […]
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Working Paper No. 706
February 08, 2012
Inflationary and Distributional Effects of Alternative Fiscal Policies
AbstractThis paper augments the basic Post-Keynesian markup model to examine the effects of different fiscal policies on prices and income distribution. This is an approach à la Hyman P. Minsky, who argued that in the modern era, government is both “a blessing and a curse,” since it stabilizes profits and output by imparting an inflationary […]
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Working Paper No. 705
February 03, 2012
What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers?
AbstractThe literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 120
October 13, 2011
Waiting for the Next Crash
AbstractSenior Scholar L. Randall Wray lays out the numerous and critical ways in which we have failed to learn from the latest global financial crisis, and identifies the underlying trends and structural vulnerabilities that make it likely a new crisis is right around the corner. Wray also suggests some policy changes that would shore up […]
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One-Pager No. 12
August 11, 2011
Δεν πρόκειται για τη συνηθισμένη ύφεση
AbstractΟ πρόεδρος Δημήτρης Β. Παπαδημητρίου και ο Μελετητής Έρευνας Greg Hannsgen επιχειρηματολογούν ότι η οικονομική υποχώρηση έχει μετατρα̟πεί σε μια παρατεταμένη και πολύ ασυνήθιστη κάμψη της ανάπτυξης, αποτρέποντας μια ανάκαμψη της αγοράς εργασίας—και η κυβέρνηση βρίσκεται πολύ ̟πίσω στην προσπάθεια της δημιουργίας των νέων θέσεων εργασίας που απαιτούνται για να αντιπετωπιστεί αυτή η καταστροφή.
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One-Pager No. 12
August 11, 2011
Not Your Father’s Recession
AbstractPresident Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Research Scholar Greg Hannsgen make the case that the recession has turned into a prolonged and very unusual slump in growth, preventing a labor-market recovery—and the government lags far behind in creating the new jobs needed to deal with this disaster.
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One-Pager No. 11
August 05, 2011
Investing in Social Care Delivery
AbstractThere is little mystery to explaining our current high levels of unemployment. The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently revised its figures on GDP growth, and revealed that not only was the recession worse than we realized, but recent growth rates have been overstated as well. The hole, in other words, was deeper than we thought, […]
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Working Paper No. 671
May 19, 2011
Public Job-creation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care
AbstractThis paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them to bridge gaps in community-based services yield strong pro-poor income growth patterns that extend throughout the economy. Social care provision also contributes to promoting gender […]
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Working Paper No. 610
August 13, 2010
Investing in Care
AbstractMassive job losses in the United States, over eight million since the onset of the “Great Recession,” call for job creation measures through fiscal expansion. In this paper we analyze the job creation potential of social service–delivery sectors—early childhood development and home-based health care—as compared to other proposed alternatives in infrastructure construction and energy. Our […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 108
February 01, 2010
Why President Obama Should Care About “Care”: An Effective and Equitable Investment Strategy for Job Creation
AbstractIn his State of the Union address President Obama acknowledged that “our most urgent task is job creation”—that a move toward full employment will lay the foundation for long-term economic growth and ensure that the federal government creates the necessary conditions for businesses to expand and hire more workers. According to a new study by […]
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