Tesfaselassie, Mewael F.; Wolters, Maik H. - 2017
of slow productivity growth and high unemployment in industrial countries. We show that introducing nominal price … rigidity helps in reconciling the model's prediction with experience. Faster growth is shown to lead to lower unemployment when … inflation is relatively high, as was the case in the 1970s. In general, the sign of the effect of growth on unemployment is …