We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

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 …

. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in …

unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs … increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … increase their employment prospects. However, despite this cut youth unemployment still increases with firing costs. In the …