Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18737 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1343
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous and endogenous capital intensity. With endogenous capital intensity, stronger labor market imperfections always increase equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is not necessarily monotonic, but there is an elasticity of substitution between capital and labor below one such that the long-run equilibrium unemployment is an increasing function of product market imperfections when the elasticity exceeds this threshold. Higher interest rates increase (decrease) the long-run equilibrium unemployment when the elasticity of substitution is below (above) one.
Subjects: 
equilibrium unemployment
product market imperfections
capital intensity
wage bargaining
JEL: 
E22
L11
J51
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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