Irreversibility, uncertainty and underemployment equilibria

David de la Croix and Omar Licandro ()

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: In a competitive overlapping generation model, underutilization of labor and equipment can be due to the combination of irreversibility of human capital, physical capital and technology with idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Irreversibilities and uncertainty generate an inefficient allocation of resources among sectors, which takes the form of underemployment and underutilization of capacities at the aggregate level and affects the equilibrium path of capital. We provide examples in which this missallocation, called structural "mismatch," can be responsible, a.o., for an "inescapable poverty trap," or for periodic orbits generating endogenous fluctuations in underemployment.

Keywords: Underemployment; Underutilization; Irreversibility; Poverty; trap; Endogenous; Fluctuations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994-11
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