This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...

This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....

We build on the DSGE literature to propose an overlapping generation model for Luxembourg. By way of illustration, the model is then used to study the consequences of the ageing of the population and the potential effects of alternative macroeconomic policies.

Diese Arbeit analysiert das Problem des Mismatch zwischen Arbeitsnachfrage und Arbeitsangebot und diskutiert wirtschaftspolitische Lösungsansätze. Das Thema ist für den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt von hoher Relevanz, denn in Deutschland gibt es trotz 3,7 Millionen arbeitsloser Erwerbspersonen mehr...