We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …

underutilization, and unemployment arising from the decline of the tradable sector. …

The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies that these phenomena can … NAIRU. The labour macro literature tries to explain unemployment dynamics and determine the real economic factors that drive … the natural rate of unemployment. We show that the orthodox view that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is vertical in the …

This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a … has not only persistent, but permanent real effects, giving rise to a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. We … the US unemployment and inflation trajectories during the nineties. …