real wages and low unemployment result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects within a sector … are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are considered at once …, low real wages and low unemployment again result. The assumption that unions and employers? federations are not able to …

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 model is able to …

unemployment. We show that aggregate unemployment decreases for uneven technical change in the case of Cobb-Douglas production … leading to a rise in unemployment. Moreover, we identify polar cases when unemployment strongly decreases. …

high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial equilibrium effects are taken into account, high real wages and … unemployment results, which may explain the persistence of high unemployment in Europe. If all general equilibrium effects are … incorporated at once, again low real wages and low unemployment results. We thus obtain a hump-shaped relationship between the …

proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of workers flows in and out of unemployment …

-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we …

This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the ?natural rate of unemployment …