REGIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT DISPARITIES: AN EVALUATION OF POLICY MEASURES *N. Groenewold and A.J. Hagger Australian Economic Papers, 2008, vol. 47, issue 4, pages 355-375 Abstract: This paper analyses the efficacy of regional and federal government policies in reducing inter-regional unemployment disparities. We use as our framework a two-region general equilibrium model with a given freely-mobile supply of labour. We assume inter-regional migration to occur in response to inter-regional utility differentials. Each region has households, firms and a regional government. In addition to regional governments, there is a federal government. The firms in a region use a single factor, labour, to produce a single good which we assume to be different to that produced in the other region. It is supplied to households and to the regional government in the form of payroll taxes. Households consume some, trade some with households in the other region and give some up to the federal government as income tax. Firms and households bargain over wages and firms then choose employment to maximise profits. The resulting equilibrium will generally not be a full-employment one. Copyright 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/University of Adelaide and Flinders University. Date: 2008 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ausecp:v:47:y:2008:i:4:p:355-375 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Australian Economic Papers is edited by Daniel Leonard More articles in Australian Economic Papers from Blackwell Publishing |
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