mobility, while unemployment increases in the country with labor market rigidities, reducing welfare. We also find that taste …

voluntary non-participation and involuntary unemployment which is caused by labor market rationing and model the dynamics of … allows us to test for true state dependence of voluntary non-participation, involuntary unemployment, full-time work and over …

RBC models with search unemployment and wage renegotiation generate too much wage volatility and too stable … unemployment rate. Shimer (2004) shows that it is possible to reproduce a volatility of unemployment similar to that observed in … unemployment …

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 …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …

This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their …

This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous … rate of unemployment. We distinguish between PMR related to entry costs and PMR that generates recurrent fixed costs. We … find that: (i) higher entry costs raise the rate of unemployment mainly through our novel selection effect, (ii) higher …

This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of quot;frictional growth … policy has not only persistent, but permanent real effects, giving rise to a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. We … the US unemployment and inflation trajectories during the nineties …

This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in …, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the ratio of total demand to total supply on this market. When prices are at … their Competitive Search Equilibrium values, the unemployment rate is minimized. Yet, the Competitive Search Equilibrium is …