unemployment fluctuations of the last three decades. A structural VAR model for the growth rates of labor productivity, inflation … and unemployment is estimated on American and French data. By using long-run identifying restrictions, unemployment … large part of the French unemployment drift. This result questions the conventional prior that the heterogeneity in …

unemployment fluctuations of the last three decades. A structural VAR model for the growth rates of labor productivity, inflation … and unemployment is estimated on American and French data. By using long-run identifying restrictions, unemployment … large part of the French unemployment drift. This result questions the conventional prior that the heterogeneity in …

differenced unemployment rate, to isolate three 'structural' shocks which drove business cycle fluctuations in Spain during 1970 … unit-root persistence in the unemployment rate. Our basic finding is that disinflationary policies in an economy suffering … from high persistence can become very costly in terms of unemployment, unless supply-side reforms, aimed at eliminating the …

. We apply our procedure to a VAR including TFP, unemployment and per-capita hours worked. We find that the three variables …