unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past … is mobile. -- demographics ; capital flows ; overlapping generations ; general equilibrium ; unemployment …

We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from … 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect … includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate into three components considering changes in the workforce's age …