The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment … and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a … direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage …

same which knows more the precarious employment, the underemployment and the recurrent unemployment. Moreover, one observes …

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model …, increases in the gross replacement rate of public unemployment insurance are shown to increase the volatility of employment, and … which unemployment is endogenised in the model. …

States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

partially due to relative changes in the type of jobs available at these times. Unemployment Insurance (UI) helps individuals … transition through difficult economic situations such as periods of unemployment, and underemployment. While UI provides … insurance to households by helping them “smooth consumption†during a period of unemployment, studies have found evidence of …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

and efficient bargaining - to the existence of a budget constraint pending on the financing of the unemployment benefit …, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well … as of different fiscal scenarios on the form of financing the unemployment benefit bill. …