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 …

. Unemployed workers' skill losses generate multiple steady-state unemployment rates. When monetary policy is constrained by the … permanent unemployment trap. Since monetary policy is powerless to escape such traps ex post, it must avoid them ex ante. The …

, especially for the low-skilled, who saw stagnant wages but a robust decline in unemployment …

facing exogenous differences in the job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap … two groups both in the level and volatility of unemployment. We show that the racial unemployment gap is counter … unemployment is above average the gap increases by 0.6pp more than when aggregate unemployment is below average. In terms of policy …

Unemployment in the United Kingdom has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key … monetary policy as an institutional change that reduced inflationary pressures in the face of falling unemployment. The decline …

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 realwage 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 …