A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms

Arbeitspapier

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector and human capital. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of the underground sector, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key assumptions are that entrepreneurial ability is heterogeneous, skill accumulation determines productivity growth, job-seekers choose whether to invest in education. The conclusions are that the least able entrepreneurs, whose number is endogenous, set up underground firms, employ unskilled labour, and do not contribute to growth. If the monitoring rate is sufficiently low, underground employment alleviates unemployment, but the economy grows at lower rates.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 03/2012

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Informal Economy; Underground Economy ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Entrepreneurship
• Thema: Matching models ; endogenous growth ; underground economy ; entrepreneurship ; unemployment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lisi, Gaetano ; Pugno, Maurizio
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
• (wo): Brussels
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142632
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ