We introduce skill decay during unemployment into Blanchard and Gali's (2008) New-Keynesian model with hiring frictions … and real-wage rigidity. Plausible values of quarterly skill decay and real-wage rigidity turn the long-run marginal cost-unemployment … relationship positive in a "European" labour market with little hiring but not in a fluid "American" one. If the marginal cost-unemployment …

, unemployment is systematically decreasing, the financial sector is more eager to lend, and its clients - to borrow. Rapidly growing …

I evaluate the welfare performance of a target for the level of nominal GDP in a New Keynesian model with unemployment …

lose skill and are expensive to retrain, generating multiple steady state unemployment rates. Large temporary shocks push …, reducing hiring and catapulting the economy toward the high-unemployment steady state. Even after a short-lived liquidity trap …, the economy recovers slowly at best; at worst, it falls into a permanent unemployment trap. Because monetary policy may be …

economic outcomes. The question is whether higher transparency comes at some cost, i.e. higher unemployment or higher … unemployment variability. Firstly, the article shows in a theoretical model that opaqueness regarding the central bank …’s preferences does not necessarily lead to lower unemployment. Secondly, the paper analyses the main theoretical results of other …

amplifies fluctuations in unemployment and results in excess unemployment volatility relative to the efficient allocation …. Recessions disproportionately affect lowproductivity workers, whose unemployment spells are inefficiently frequent and long. We …-productivity workers. The unemployment consequences are especially severe when nominal interest rates are close to the effective lower …

unemployment, in a way that suggests that a baseless fear of full employment is a principal force behind monetary policy. Tests of … the Federal Reserve largely ceased reacting to inflation or high unemployment, but continued to react when unemployment … controlling for the effects of inflation and unemployment …

unemployment rates. These findings have been interpreted as support for the hysteresis hypothesis. In this paper, we analyze a … panel of unemployment rates of fifteen OECD countries by using a panel-based test. The test exploits the cross … and time periods. It is found that the null hypothesis of a unit root in unemployment rates can be rejected in general …

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …

2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to …. In the periphery countries, the reduction in unemployment rates is relatively pronounced, while in the core countries it …