monetary model in which: i) the unemployed are worse o§ than the employed, i.e. unemployment is involuntary and ii) the labor … technology shocks. In addition, the model does well at accounting for the response of the labor force and unemployment rate to …

In the most widely analyzed type of efficiency wage model of involuntary unemployment, firms pay wages in excess of … equilibrium unemployment act as a worker discipline device. This paper concerns what is usually considered the most important … involuntary unemployment. Explicit upfront bonds are only quite rarely observed. A more subtle form of the bonding critique argues …

unemployment …

unemployment, Keynes emphasis on relative wages has not been reflected in most contemporary discussions. This short paper suggests … available apparatus for understanding actual unemployment and its fluctuations. Such theories are very closely related to the …

model. Their PC was vertical in the long run at the natural unemployment rate, and their short-run curve shifted up whenever … unemployment was pushed below the natural rate. This paper criticizes the underlying assumption of the Friedman-Phelps approach … that the labor market continuously clears and that changes in unemployment down or up occur only in response to “fooling …

61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the … 1981-85 period of massive joblessness did not decline with duration; (4) the length of unemployment spells reduces wages …

This paper argues that hysteresis helps explain the long-run behavior of unemployment. The natural rate of unemployment … is influenced by the path of actual unemployment, and hence by shifts in aggregate demand. I review past evidence for …

-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in response to shocks of a plausible magnitude. In the U.S., the vacancy-unemployment … vacancy-unemployment ratio and labor productivity have nearly the same variance. I establish this claim both using analytical … small movement along a downward sloping Beveridge curve (unemployment-vacancy locus). A shock to the job destruction rate …

a burst of layoffs. Unemployment rises because jobs are hard to find, not because an unusual number of people are thrown … into unemployment …

good job of explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the `rational expectations …