proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of workers flows in and out of unemployment …

This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with …, this will result in a lengthy adjustment process with substantial long run unemployment effects. Moreover, the model is …

. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates …

Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

insiders to firing restrictions does not necessarily worsen unemployment. In fact, it may be the willingness of a majority of … unemployment and deteriorates efficiency. Moreover, we argue, that the concentration of firm ownership is likely to influence labor …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders' opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …