Around the world, central bankers closely monitor monthly unemployment statistics. A nation's assessment of the optimal … a modification of the unemployment metric would provide a more accurate picture than is currently on offer …

This paper examines various variables that are likely to be associated with the Turkish non-agricultural unemployment … performance of these series to assess their informativeness about the unemployment rate. We find that Business Tendency Survey …-term forecast performance of the autoregressive benchmark model, where we use only lagged values of the unemployment rate. …

lifetime of contracts. On balance, the evidence suggests that the long-run trade-off between inflation and the unemployment …

exogenous variables are the degree of legal commitment and the constraining influence of institutions. The paper allows for the …