find that higher union bargaining power leads to a negative relationship between growth and unemployment. An increase in … between the growth and unemployment rates results. …

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

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. …

causes deficient aggregate demand and thereby unemployment in the presence of nominal wage stickiness attributable to union … wage setting. In this long-run stagnation, generous unemployment benefits reduce unemployment. Moreover, paradoxically …, unemployment declines if labor unions give more weight to nominal wage gains compared with employment increases …