We propose that the natural rate of unemployment has an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to the … Phillips-curve framework of low - often extremely low - response of inflation to unemployment could be the result of fairly … most Phillips-curve studies, that conclude that inflation has little relation to unemployment. We suggest that the flat …

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid … capital accumulation as a macroeconomic shock. In the empirical analysis, medium-term unemployment is explained by capital …