We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … shocks play adominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreoverreal wages have low sensitivity to …

This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …

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 …