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ZERO UNEMPLOYMENT [4 records]

Record 1 2023-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

... fishing costs [were divided] into two components, private labour costs(wages) and other capital and operating costs. Where there are high levels of unemployment in the economy, the opportunity cost of labour is essentially zero.... the "social yield" consists of resource rents plus wages. [One of the] five possible equilibrium points at different levels of fishing effort [identified was the] zero resource rent —(OAE) — open access equilibrium...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

[...] les coûts de la pêche [sont divisés] en deux composantes, soit les coûts privés de la main-d'œuvre (salaires) et les autres coûts d'immobilisations et d'opération. [...] le «rendement social» se compose des bénéfices tirés de la ressource et des salaires. [L'un des] cinq points d'équilibre possibles à différents niveaux d'effort de pêche [est] le revenu économique nul (RÉN) — l'équilibre lorsque l'accès à la pêche est libre [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing Theory
  • Foreign Trade
CONT

Since people place a positive value on leisure, it is clearly inappropriate to assume that there is zero opportunity cost in employing labour which would otherwise be unemployed. Rather, the correct shadow price of this labour is its supply price, that is, that wage which is just sufficient to get it to work. One might suppose that the supply price of unemployed labour will be functionally related to the level of unemployment insurance benefits and to the average duration of unemployment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie des prix
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teoría de fijación de precios
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 3 1998-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Fluctuations
CONT

Zero inflation appears extreme only because people have long been accustomed to higher interest rates, because of the lingering ghost of the Phillips Curve(which purports to show a trade-off between inflation and unemployment) and because economists dismiss out-of-hand the alternative of gradual deflation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fluctuations économiques
CONT

Si l'inflation zéro apparaît comme une option extrême, c'est parce que les agents économiques sont depuis longtemps accoutumés à des taux d'inflation élevés, parce que la fameuse courbe de Phillips (qui prétend démontrer l'existence d'un dilemme inflation-chômage) continue d'exercer une grande influence et également parce que les économistes rejettent d'emblée l'option de déflation progressive.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Labour and Employment
CONT

Even in this frigid season, Prague, which boasts zero unemployment-nationally it's three per cent-is one big construction site.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

Par analogie avec «croissance zéro».

Spanish

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