This paper bridges the gap between two popular approaches to estimating the natural rate of unemployment, u*. The first … approach uses detailed labor market indicators, such as labor market flows, cross-sectional data on unemployment and vacancies … estimate the natural rate of unemployment in the United States using both data on labor market flows and a forward …

unemployment (NAIRU) in prominent SAARC countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal) by using a panel dataset … that when actual unemployment rate was below the reported value of NAIRU, there was a pressure on inflation rate to rise … recommendations to address the problems of inflation and unemployment in SAARC countries. …

decomposing unemployment into classes of unemployment and the measurement of each of these classes by reference to stable …The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of … unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which …

' PC (relating the level of the inflation rate, not the change in this rate, to the rate of unemployment); and the …