The Effects of Labour Market Reforms upon Unemployment and Income Inequalities: an Agent Based Model

Giovanni Dosi, Marcelo Pereira, Andrea Roventini and Maria Enrica Virgillito

LEM Papers Series from Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

Abstract: This paper is meant to analyse the effects of labour market structural reforms by means of an agent-based model. Building on Dosi et al., (2016b) we introduce a policy regime change characterized by a set of structural reforms on the labour market, keeping constant the structure of the capital- and consumption-good markets. Confirming a recent IMF report (Jaumotte and Buitron, 2015), the model shows how labour market structural reforms reducing workersù bargaining power and compressing wages tend to increase (i) unemployment, (ii) functional income inequality, and (iii) personal income inequality. We further undertake a global sensitivity analysis on key variables and parameters which confirms the robustness of our findings.

Keywords: Labour Market Structural Reforms; Income Distribution; Inequality; Unemployment; Long-Run Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05-07
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