consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …

and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …

labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …

How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …

alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …

paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …

This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause …

unemployment. The optimal policy response to the efficient labor market shock changes when real wages are sticky but remains …