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Titre La relations salaire-emploi sous l'éclairage de la concurrence imparfaite
Auteur Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers d'économie politique
Numéro no 34, printemps 1999 Qu'a-t-on appris sur la relation salaire-emploi depuis Keynes?
Page 15-40
Résumé anglais The question of the wages-employment relationship stemmed from the statistical invalidation by Dunlop and Tarshis, immediately after the publication of the General Theory, of a conjecture formulated by Keynes on the alleged negative correlation between real and money wages. All three authors tried from the beginning to reconcile theoretical views and statistical observations by resorting, almost exclusively, to imperfect competition. Actually, these efforts culminated, at least in Dunlop's case, in a true research programme on macroeconomic analysis of imperfectly competitive economies, a programme which was basically implemented only in the eighties and the nineties. The present paper discusses this episode from the theoretical point of view and casts a look at its modern echoes, namely at the two main ways of reconciling the Keynesian conjecture with the stylized facts : increasing marginal returns due to internal economies and cyclical
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