The book offers an explanation of unemployment based on a model of wage bargaining between a trade union and an … natural rate of unemployment is independent of productivity growth. Taxes on labour and capital are identified as important … German data confirms the theoretical predictions. Keywords: Unemployment ; Hysteresis ; Trade Unions ; Cointegration Contents …

The non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) is not directly observable and the presence of informal … workers imposes an additional challenge in its estimation. Countries with large informal sectors, traditional measures might … formal job. In this paper, we present an estimation of the traditional NAIRU for Mexico and an alternative measure that …

We propose that the natural rate of unemployment has an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to the … Phillips-curve framework of low - often extremely low - response of inflation to unemployment could be the result of fairly … most Phillips-curve studies, that conclude that inflation has little relation to unemployment. We suggest that the flat …