ratio and the relatively generous unemployment benefit system. …

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 …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …

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 …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …

, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are lose …

unemployment. The results suggest that the elasticity is indeed negative, i.e. that real wages are lower in local labour markets … with higher unemployment. The size of the elasticity for the euro area is similar to that found in previous studies for a … number of countries, including the United States. Furthermore, there is some variation in the unemployment elasticity by …

unemployment rates and government debt levels in other European countries are systematically related to lower levels of trust in …