| dc.contributor.author | Erksoy, Mustafa Sadettin. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:38:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1992 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN80231 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55348 | |
| dc.description | In this thesis a microsimulation model is developed in order to analyse the distributional effects of changing macroeconomic conditions in Canada in the 1981-1987 period. This period was characterized by higher rates of unemployment and declining inflation rates. | en_US |
| dc.description | Chapter 2 analyses the distributional effects of higher unemployment on the human wealth of individuals and households. In Chapter 3, the distributional effects of disinflation on the non-human wealth of households are analysed. Chapter 4 combines the effects of unemployment and disinflation on household total wealth. Conclusions are included in Chapter 5. | en_US |
| dc.description | There are two methodological novelties in this study. First, the simulation model is a behavioral model in a dynamic macroeconomic environment. The model also allows for new possibilities of empirical verification by integrating the hypothetical steady state path and the actual performance of the Canadian economy. The second novelty is the analysis of simultaneous effects of unemployment and disinflation on the human and non-human wealth of households. | en_US |
| dc.description | The major results of the study indicate that the losses in total wealth area $55.8 billion in 1981 dollars. The losses in total human wealth and non-human wealth are about \$38.7 billion, and 17.1 billion respectively. In the 1981-1987 period there is also an increase in inequality in the distribution of household total wealth. The wealth is redistributed from the less wealthy to the more wealthy, from the young to the old, from females to males, from singles to the married. Therefore, a disinflationary macroeconomic shock unambiguously increases economic inequality. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1992. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economics, General. | en_US |
| dc.title | Distributional effects of unemployment and disinflation in Canada: 1981-1987. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
