This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

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 …