The book offers an explanation of unemployment based on a model of wage bargaining between a trade union and an … natural rate of unemployment is independent of productivity growth. Taxes on labour and capital are identified as important … German data confirms the theoretical predictions. Keywords: Unemployment ; Hysteresis ; Trade Unions ; Cointegration Contents …

Our claim is that in a purely free enterprise system, there can be no such thing as involuntary unemployment, as long …

We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official U.S. definition of unemployment: people …, unemployment is involuntary). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple new Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment. We then …