achievement of plausible target unemployment rates, disaggregated by age and gender. Second, we analyze the job creation needs … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment … unemployment persistence by its adverse impact on growth, and may even destabilize the adjustment path. If this is the case, a … future fiscal consolidation is needed which further raises unemployment. These results are consistent with empirical evidence …

on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level. I trace out the long-run investment and growth trajectories of firms which … investment gap for two years following the shock, resulting in a persistent accumulated growth gap. I show that affected firms … with a higher degree of wage rigidity exhibit a steeper drop in investment and grow more slowly than affected firms with …

trace out firms' investment and growth trajectories in response to a credit supply shock. Financially shocked firms exhibit … a temporary investment gap for two years, resulting in a persistent accumulated growth gap six years after the crisis …. Shocked firms with rigid wages exhibit a significantly steeper drop in investment and an additional long-run growth gap …