inflation. Among other things, the unemployment gap, which is the difference between unemployment rate and non …-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), is used to measure inflationary pressure from the labour market. This paper examines … which of the NAIRU estimation methods described in the literature can be applied to Hungary. In evaluating the results, the …

This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment … over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical “natural rate of unemployment” (NRU … unemployment are due, instead, to very prolonged after-effects of persistent (transitory but long-lasting) shocks. We argue that (a …

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … shocks play adominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreoverreal wages have low sensitivity to …

This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …

In this paper, a theory of the natural or equilibrium rate of unemployment is built around a theory of the duration of … a minority are on temporary layoff or have just entered the labor force. Thus, high-unemployment labor markets are … efficient. The factors influencing the resulting natural unemployment rate are discussed. Under plausible assumptions, the …

The non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) is not directly observable and the presence of informal … workers imposes an additional challenge in its estimation. Countries with large informal sectors, traditional measures might … formal job. In this paper, we present an estimation of the traditional NAIRU for Mexico and an alternative measure that …

We set up and estimate a structural unobserved components open economy model for the rate of unemployment and the real … factors. Thus, the results indicate that the dramatic changes in the Swedish unemployment rate during the 1990s mainly was a … inflation is found to be quite sensitive to the unemployment gap. An increase in cyclical unemployment by 1 percentage point …

offset by extra unemployment; so the minimum wage increases the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment or NAIRU …