and lagged relationships between the rates of inflation, unemployment, and change in labour force. For France, several … unemployment within the Phillips curve framework. Following the original problem formulation by Fisher and Phillips, the set of … study has validated the reliability and accuracy of the linear and lagged relationships between inflation, unemployment, and …

This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …

plot of seasonal adjusted quarterly data between the change of nominal wage rates and the unemployment rate shows a picture …

For U.S. recessions since 1948, we study paneled time series of (i) ExUR, the excess of the unemployment rate over the … maximum effect of NGAP on unemployment occurs with a lag of 2 to 3 quarters. …

doubles when unemployment rises from 5% to 8%. Theoretically, such countercyclicality arises because of a nonlinearity, namely … in recessions but large in expansions. Hence, government consumption reduces unemployment much more in recessions than in …

To generate big responses of unemployment to productivity changes, researchers have reconfigured matching models in … introducing costly acquisition of credit, or by positing government mandated unemployment compensation and layoff costs. All of … these redesigned matching models increase responses of unemployment to movements in productivity by diminishing the …

unemployment – inflation space. …