security system in an economy with unemployment caused by trade unions. Using a simple two-period overlapping generations …

In this paper the effects of institutional variables on unemployment are reinvestigated for nine OECD countries. The … unemployment may differ across countries, not only in absolute terms but also in terms of sign. The main results are the following …. Fourthly, based on a cross country comparison some evidence is found that some of the considered labour market institutions …

This paper introduces and examines a definition of an equilibrium rate of unemployment that can be used as mismatch …

and the regional unemployment rate when children are 10 years old are significantly related to the education that these …

This paper examines the effects of the distribution of unemployment by duration on the level of unemployment. It …, the unemployment rate increases (decreases). By embodying this assumption in a standard equilibrium unemployment model we … characterize the joint behavior of unemploy- ment and the distribution of unemployment by duration. In the theoretical part of the …

This paper examines the effects of the distribution of unemployment by age on the level of unemployment. We provide an … extension of the standard equilibrium unemployment model that allows for age dependent job finding probabilities and quit rates … implications of the theoretical model. The results provide the somewhat surprising evidence that the distribution of unemployment …