real wages and low unemployment result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects within a sector … are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are considered at once …, low real wages and low unemployment again result. The assumption that unions and employers' federations are not able to …

proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of workers flows in and out of unemployment …

unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial equilibrium effects are taken into account, high real wages and … unemployment results, which may explain the persistence of high unemployment in Europe. If all general equilibrium effects are … incorporated at once, again low real wages and low unemployment results. We thus obtain a hump-shaped relationship between the …

In dynamic wage bargaining models it is usually assumed that individual unemployment benefits are a fraction of the … average wage level. In most countries, however, unemployment benefits are instead tied to the previous level of individually … wage-setting curve with outcomes under other unemployment compensation schemes. In particular, we show that the widely used …