the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …