THE ANALYSIS OF EQUITY-EFFICIENCY TRADE-OFF IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMY

Cristian Socol (), Aura Gabriela Socol () and Marius Marinas

Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2008, vol. 2, issue 1, 442-448

Abstract: The European Union’s economic evolution for the last sixty years is specific to the long term stages of the economic cycle, of Kondratieff type. The economic expansion period has been characterized by a higher efficiency level (growth in productivity, in the labour occupation degree) which favoured the reducing of the inequalities related to incomes through the redistribution process. The economic recession stage showed that, under the terms of an increased unemployment, of a low aggregate demand and of a less flexible aggregate supply, the economic efficiency level is relatively lower. On these conditions, the providing of social equity (of the cohesion) will affect negatively the efficiency degree, fact which will extend the period of economic recession within The European Union.

Keywords: economic growth; labour productivity; economic recession; total factor productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 F10 J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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