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This chapter presents an economic model I believe can be useful when we discuss unemployment in the OECD countries. The theory embodied in the model can be characterized as modified neoKeynesian.

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© 1992 Kumaraswamy Velupillai

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Holte, F.C., Siven, CH., Gandolfo, G. (1992). Unemployment in the OECD Countries. In: Velupillai, K. (eds) Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and Simulation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12227-1_12

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