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 …

. 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 …

inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …

empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …

the PC and explain the evolution of inflation and unemployment in the US from 1970 to 2006. Since our empirical …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … unemployment rate. -- New Phillips curve ; frictional growth ; productivity growth ; stagflating seventies ; roaring nineties …

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 …