for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

real wages and low unemployment result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects within a sector … are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are considered at once …, low real wages and low unemployment again result. The assumption that unions and employers' federations are not able to …

paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …

age pattern affects wages and (un)employment. We develop a general equilibrium model where wages for young and old workers … relative number of older workers for a given labor force size has no effect on young and old unemployment. If, however, unions … attach a higher weight to the wishes of the old, the unemployment rate of the old (young) will increase (decrease). In this …