We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … educational changes, the latter usually neglected in aggregate studies. Results show that demographic and education shocks are … ("education boom"), even when controlling for skill-biased technological change, reduce the unemployment of the more educated …

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … educational changes, the latter usually neglected in aggregate studies. Results show that demographic and education shocks are … ("education boom"), even when controlling for skill-biased technological change, reduce the unemployment of the more educated …

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … educational changes, the latter usually neglected in aggregate studies. Results show that demographic and education shocks are … ("education boom"), even when controlling for skill-biased technological change, reduce the unemployment of the more educated …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the … consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

and efficient bargaining - to the existence of a budget constraint pending on the financing of the unemployment benefit …, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well … as of different fiscal scenarios on the form of financing the unemployment benefit bill. …

provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment … and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a … direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage …