employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of …Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full …). Accordingly, the efficient unemployment rate is the geometric average of the unemployment and vacancy rates: u* = √uv. We compute …

featured mainly declining unemployment rates. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous skills to explore the … role of structural and cyclical policies for this performance. Calibrating unemployment benefits to approximate legislation … before and after the reforms, we find a large reduction in unemployment and its duration, with the transition concluding …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

Okun's law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the … replaced the United States UE with employment (EM) for the years 1977 to 2021 and examined how employment changed relative to … "jobless recovery" is that employment should not increase more rapidly than the real economy. …