This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The simulations …

unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging) leading to lower interest rates also imply lower equilibrium unemployment rates …

capacity shortages cannot be the direct and single cause of unemployment persistence. Inferring from this observation that low … investment rates play no role in explaining the persistence of high unemployment rates may however fail to take into account the … analyse the determinants of equilibrium unemployment (the NAIRU), provided one takes explicitly into account the effect of a …

This paper reexamines the existence of a long-run relationship between wages and unemployment in the U.K., with data … and the unemployment rate. However, the main impact of deviations from this long-run equilibrium is on the unemployment …

This paper examines the determinants of equilibrium wage and unemployment rates in Belgium within the framework of a … this stage is then used to estimate a three-equation econometric model explaining the wage share, the unemployment rate and … the capital gap. The slowdown in world trade is depicted as the most important factor explaining the rise in unemployment …