increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment … insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …

unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage … effects. They strengthen labor supply both in terms of job search intensity, leading to lower unemployment rates, and hours …

This paper extends the standard Real Business Cycle model to incorporate sectoral shifts in unemployment. Using … possibility of generating persistent aggregate unemployment. Calibrated to Canadian data, the models suggest that the introduction … the observed persistence in unemployment. Empirically, we estimated a Vector Auto-Regressive model and successfully …

simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage … different effects in the two different situations. Interestingly, urban subsidy policies reduces urban unemployment in both of … the two cases, where as rural subsidy policy intensifies the problem of unemployment when urban informal sector is related …

In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment … reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for Canadian unemployment. …

We calibrate an infinite-horizon model with endogenous growth and unemployment on actual data from the largest … taxes when financed either raising capital taxation or reducing unemployment subsidies. We find two main results: (i) with … lump-sum transfers, reducing labor taxes and unemployment subsidies is beneficial to both employment and growth, while …

equities, we examine equilibrium unemployment. While a mechanism of an efficiency wage brings about nominal wage rigidity …, unemployment occurring in our model definitely has Keynesian features. For instance, a reduction in wages rather enhances … unemployment through a decrease in consumption. In addition, our paper shows a possibility of Pareto improvement through an …