We analyze how frictions in the labour market influence the accumulation of general human capital. We find that investments in human capital benefits future employers, and that this positive externality leads to under-investments in human capital, and possibly top multiple, Pareto rankable...

This paper lays out a simple open economy macromodel based on the recent literature on imperfect competition and equilibrium unemployment.

In recent years, the OECD has measured the structural rate of unemployment by an indicator called the Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment. The NAWRU-indicator is an important element in the policy analysis of the OECD. The rise in the estimated NAWRUs is also taken as evidence that Nordic...