This contribution reveals some structural properties of the Czech and Slovak labour markets. A search and matching model incorporated into a small standard DSGE model is estimated using Bayesian techniques. Two sources of rigidities are implemented: wage bargaining mechanism and “search and...

This paper presents a wage bargaining model and its relation to hysteresis hypothesis in unemployment. Hysteresis in unemployment is used do denote a situation, in which the equlibrium rate is determined by the path of the actual unemployment rate. Seeming lack of micro economical foundations...