Cross, Rod; Lang, Dany - In: Intervention. European Journal of Economics and … 08 (2011) 2, pp. 317-340
This paper assesses the Layard et al. (1991) NAIRU framework for explaining unemployment. Their approach is distinct … from the natural rate of unemployment framework in that it postulates a short-run NAIRU influenced by 'hysteresis'. It is … that this is a more useful approach to the explanation of equilibrium unemployment than the NAIRU, which, for its …