Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …. -- inflation ; unemployment ; search-matching ; Friedman rule …

suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only …-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to …

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement …