the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …

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 …

unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past … is mobile. -- demographics ; capital flows ; overlapping generations ; general equilibrium ; unemployment …

exacerbates unemployment. Our richer setting allows for generational differences in the motivations for job search to be reflected … in two distinct inverted U‐shaped relationships between unemployment and high‐wage employment, one for youth and a … different one for adults. In turn, the relationship between overall unemployment and high‐wage employment is shown to be non …

second best not to distort education if the human capital investment function is isoelastic. If the function is not …

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 …