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Social Security, Unemployment, and Growth

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Brauninger, Michael

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The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a different effect on economic growth. Both pensions and unemployment benefits influence equilibrium unemployment caused by wage bargaining. Since unemployment impairs growth, both types of social security have an indirect, negative effect on growth.

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Paper provided by Hamburg Institute of International Economics in its series Discussion Paper Series with number 26346.

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Keywords: unemployment benefits; pensions; wage bargaining; endogenous growth; Labor and Human Capital; E24; H55; J51; J64; J65;

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  1. Lars Kunze & Christiane Schuppert, 2009. "Financing Social Security by Taxing Capital Income – A Bad Idea?," Ruhr Economic Papers 0090, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Dortmund, Universität Duisburg-Essen. [Downloadable!]
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