Abstract

Using a money-in-the-utility-function model, we present long-run stagnation where insatiable demand for money secularly causes deficient aggregate demand and thereby unemployment in the presence of nominal wage stickiness attributable to union wage setting. In this long-run stagnation, generous unemployment benefits reduce unemployment. Moreover, paradoxically, unemployment declines if labor unions give more weight to nominal wage gains compared with employment increases.

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