Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD

Unemployment in the OECD: Models and Mysteries

Unemployment in the OECD: Models and Mysteries This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the “natural rate of unemployment” has been driven up mainly by wage push factors. Panel data on twenty-two OECD countries are used to investigate the explanatory power of these models over the past two decades. Our estimates reveal that coefficients on key variab...

‘ Wage Rigidity and Unemployment in OECD Countries ’

Econometric investigations of individual countries’ experiences with inflation and unemployment in the 1970’s have shown that it is no longer sufficient to simply assume that wages are sticky in order to explain observed macroeconomic phenomena and make policy recommendations. A number of theoretical papers appearing in the last few years, motivated in part by the international econometric comp...

Post Keynesian Employment Analysis and Oecd Unemployment

Post Keynesians [hereafter PK] fashion their theory of employment (i.e., private sector labordemand hiring) utilizing Keynes's general theory. Entrepreneurial demand for hiring workers is derived from the point of effective demand determined in product markets. Since Keynes's "general" theory requires fewer restrictive axioms than the axiomatic theory underlying both classical economics (new an...

V. Revised Oecd Measures of Structural Unemployment

The NAIRU is the rate of unemployment consistent with stable inflation... An important challenge in setting economic policy is to identify the rate of capacity utilisation that is sustainable, in the sense that it is associated with reasonably stable inflation. There are different ways of measuring capacity utilisation. Looking at perhaps the most common measure, unemployment, this idea of sust...

The Unemployment Impact of Immigration in Oecd Countries