Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

In this paper we investigate the impact of the recent US unemployment benefits extension on the labor market dynamic … experiments suggest that, in contrast to the existing literature that ignores the liquidity trap situation, unemployment benefits … expansions cause a wage and inflationary pressure which curb the increase in real interest rate and slightly reduce unemployment …

from one phase to another. We find strong evidence for positive duration dependence in all business cycle phases but find …