recovered but unemployment lingered). This paper presents a model that captures these three facts. The key elements of the model … confidence shock. Lack-of-confidence shocks play a central role in generating jobless recoveries, for fundamental shocks, such as …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the … impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …

advantage of the workers' induces higher unemployment in equilibrium. The upshot is a long run tradeoff between inflation and … unemployment for low levels of inflation. The prediction that low inflation involves higher unemployment in Europe but not in the …

surprising miracle occurred the leaver nations are alleged to have enjoyed a burst of real growth and a decline in unemployment … pronounced if it were not for quiescent wage rates, which the paper attributes to high unemployment. The absence of any …