We focus on the equilibrium unemployment rate as a parameter implied by a dynamic aggregate model of wage- and price … setting. The equilibrium unemployment rate depends on institutional labour market institutions through mark-up coefficients …. Compared to existing studies, the resulting final equation for unemployment has richer dynamic structure. The empirical …

We propose a proxy for trend unemployment derived from the cointegration property between unemployment rates and world …

OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a … unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has a natural interpretation as a measure of global expected returns … estimate a model of unemployment adjustment, which allows for the influence both of the global factor and of labour market …