This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of Innovation, endogenous growth, and unemployment in a disaggregated … economy. Unemployment is analyzed w ithin a dual labor market setting, where the labor market is consisting of a primary high … the economy's growth rate and the equilibrium unemployment rate. It can be shown in comparative static analyses, that the …

The paper addresses and summarizes the role of unemployment in the transformation process from an economic system with … explanations why unemployment is high during transition in countries of Central and Eastern Europe the role of unemployment and the … fiscal problems due to unemployment is discussed within a model of economies of transition. The model highlights the …

bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …

levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real … wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the …

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …