
Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run : the Role of Macroeconomic Volatility »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2010/259
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Paolo Surico , Luca Ricci , and Pierpaolo Benigno
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455209590.001
ISBN: 9781455209590
Keywords: macroeconomic volatility, downward wage rigidities, unemployment rate, employment, unemployment rates, rate of unemployment, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General, Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production
We propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run produc...