This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi … appears as a key determinant of capital accumulation which, in turn, is the transmission channel towards its unemployment … swings experienced by the financialization process. We find that it has had relevant unemployment effects in all periods …

' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a significant role in … explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo- Saxon ones. We also show that … there is no relationship between the incidence of the PTB and unemployment persistence, even though there is a positive one …

We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and …

We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy decisions. We show that the … unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to frictional growth, a phenomenon that encapsulates the interplay between … empirical analysis and find that the NRU explains only 33% of the unemployment variation, while frictional growth accounts for …

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 …