Questions tagged [natural-rate-unemployment]
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What measure of unemployment is used by central banks to find out whether the rate of unemployment is below the natural rate of unemployment?
Having an unemployment rate below the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) leads to wage inflation and a reduction in productivity. Seeing the consequences of that, and knowing that one of the roles of ...
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AS-AD model and labor force increase and natural rate of unemployment
I am trying to analyze the effects on the unemployment rate $u$ as the labor force $L$ increases, by use of the AS-AD model.
I have however some issues I can't wrap my head around:
If we increase ...
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Explaining negative “cyclic” unemployment with a production function
First of all, here is a related post. Unfortunately, it does not answer my question.
I have heard that there is an understanding of negative unemployment in economic theory. Obviously, absolute ...
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Why is Canada's unemployment rate higher than that of the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands?
Current unemployment rate in Canada is about 5.8% while countries such as the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands have unemployment rates well below 5%. In addition, the current unemployment rate in ...
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Why does a reduction in regional differences in unemployment shift the Phillips curve?
According to this question below, apparently a reduction in the regional differences in the level of unemployment would shift the short run Phillips curve SRPC leftwards. The answer to the question is ...
