unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and higher labor force participation imply higher incomes and less … consumer demand toward unskill-intensive goods. Relative demand for unskilled labor rises and unemployment falls. Finally, we …

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

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 …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …