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	Tutor2u - Unemployment - Natural Rate of Unemployment
		The natural rate of unemployment is the equilibrium rate of unemployment.
		Thus the natural rate of unemployment = AB and consists of frictional + structural unemployment
		The government might cut the natural rate of unemployment by reducing the horizontal distance between the supply of labour curve and the labour force curve.
	www.tutor2u.net /economics/content/topics/unemp/natural_rate.htm (514 words)

	Natural rate of unemployment in US
		His 1968 theory of the so-called "natural rate of unemployment" was subsequently developed by many mainstream economists under the term "Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment," or NAIRU, a remarkably clumsy term for expressing the simple concept of a threshold unemployment rate below which inflation begins to rise.
		In other words, according to Friedman, what he terms ~ the "natural rate" is really a social phenomenon measuring the class strength of working people, as indicated by their ability to organize effective unions and establish a livable minimum wage.
		In short, class conflict is the specter haunting the analysis of the natural rate and NAIRU: this is the consistent message stretching from Milton Friedman in the 1960s to Robert Gordon in the 1990s.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Economics/NaturalUnemployment.html (2581 words)

	Revision Guru
		The natural rate of unemployment is the rate of unemployment where the labour market is in a position of equilibrium.
		The natural rate of unemployment is not zero - at the equilibrium wage W
		Some economists claim this is evidence that the natural rate of unemployment has fallen, allowing the economy to operate at a higher level of economic activity without experiencing an acceleration in inflation.
	www.revisionguru.co.uk /economics/unemp7.htm (302 words)

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		The natural rate of unemployment is a concept of economic activity developed in particular by Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps in the 1960s.
		The natural rate of unemployment therefore corresponds to the unemployment rate prevailing under a classical view of determination of activity.
		The development of the theory of the natural rate of unemployment came in the 1960s where economists observed that the Phillips-curve relationship between inflation and unemployment began to break down.
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	Unemployment and the Unemployment Rate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unemployment insurance increases frictional unemployment by decreasing the opportunity cost of unemployment, thereby increasing the lowest wage that the job seeker would be willing to accept and lengthening the job search.
		The natural rate of unemployment is the sum of the frictional and structural unemployment rates.
		The unemployment rate is not a perfect indicator of employment in the economy.
	www.quickmba.com /econ/macro/unemployment (1467 words)

	Scapegoating the Natural Rate - WSJ.com
		The critics observe that unemployment is currently far below expert estimates of the natural rate made two years ago, and yet the inflation rate has not increased.
		This phenomenon, called hysteresis, received wide attention in the 1980s when the rise of unemployment in European countries was not widely followed by partial recovery, as was seen in the U.S. Europe's slump, it was suggested, pushed up its natural unemployment rate.
		The earlier surge of the natural rate followed the continuing rise of wealth after the rise in the median wage came to a halt in the mid-1970s.
	online.wsj.com /public/article/SB839283538426620500-xqb2756jemX6H7E9Oq1DrcpWBPQ_20061108.html (1355 words)

	Extensions of the Model and the Phillip’s Curve- Read Blanchard Chapter 8
		Unemployment resulting from the decline of the steel industry is an example of structural unemployment.
		The natural rate of unemployment in the United States appears to be between 4% and 5%.
		Japan’s low rate may be due to the presence of lifetime employment, where workers tend to stay with a single company for their entire careers.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~pshea/Teaching/Econ_313/Lecture_Notes/Natural_Rates.html (1888 words)

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		The natural rate is thus called the "NAIRU"- the acronym for that mouthful, "nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment".
		Unemployment in the United States has bounced all around its so-called natural rate with no indications of permanently accelerating inflation from, our episodes of low unemployment.
		Of course we cannot expect the unemployment rate to be zero.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~rbutler/eisner2.htm (944 words)

	SparkNotes: Measuring the Economy 2: Unemployment
		This type of unemployment is called cyclical unemployment because it is attributable to changes in output due to the cycles of the economy.
		The unemployment rate is the ratio of the number of people unemployed over the total number of people in the labor force.
		The unemployment rate is the ratio of the unemployed to the total labor force or (5 / 25) = 20%.
	www.sparknotes.com /economics/macro/measuring2/section2.rhtml (1828 words)

	Types of Unemployment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The economic activity rate = workforce/working age population x 100 and is an indicator of the willingness of the people of working age to take jobs.
		There can be a large number of unemployed at full employment and the natural rate of unemployment changes because of changes in the number of frictional and structural unemployed.
		Modern economics prefers to use the phrase the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) ie the level of unemployment that is associated with a constant rate of inflation.
	www.woodgreen.oxon.sch.uk /economics/macro/unemployment/types_of_unemployment.htm (331 words)

	Explaining European Unemployment
		Unemployment insurance is more generous than in the United States, both in terms of the replacement rate and of the length for which benefits are given.
		In many (but not all) countries the increase in unemployment in the 1970s was associated with a small further increase in the generosity of unemployment insurance, a small increase in employment protection, and an increase in the tax wedge.
		In most countries, the main proximate cause of the increase in unemployment in the 1970s and the early 1980s was indeed a series of adverse "labor supply shifts," that is a series of steady increases in wages given unemployment and the level of technology.
	www.nber.org /reporter/summer04/blanchard.html (2822 words)

	The Natural Rate of Unemployment
		MILTON FRIEDMAN AND THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
		Friedman is said to regret the term "natural rate of unemployment," since it implies that a certain amount of unemployment is acceptable.
		Furthermore, when the unemployment rate is high, wages tend to fall, in accordance with the laws of supply and demand on the labor market.
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	FRBSF: Economic Letter - The Natural Rate, NAIRU, and Monetary Policy (9/18/98)
		Thus, the natural rate and the NAIRU are often viewed as two names for the same thing, providing an important benchmark for gauging the state of the business cycle, the outlook for future inflation, and the appropriate stance of monetary policy.
		The average long-run unemployment rate measured since 1961 is 6.09%, and during the 1980s and early 1990s, most economists placed the natural rate quite near that, in the 6-6.5% range.
		The estimate labeled Natural Rate 2 was constructed by Stuart Weiner (1993), who combined evidence on the relationship between unemployment and inflation with a disaggregated approach that accounts for shifts in the composition of the labor force between different age/gender groups.
	www.frbsf.org /econrsrch/wklyltr/wklyltr98/el98-28.html (1909 words)

	The Effect of Changes in Labor Markets on the Natural Rate of Unemployment
		The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed people as a percentage of the civilian labor force, which consists of all employed and unemployed people ages 16 and higher.
		The natural rate of unemployment is associated with the NAIRU, or nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment.
		The characteristics of the workforce exert considerable influence on the natural rate of unemployment.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=3367&sequence=0 (9272 words)

	The Natural Rate of Unemployment - Cambridge University Press
		This postulates that the equilibrium rate of unemployment consistent with steady inflation is determined by structural variables: sustainable reductions in unemployment can be achieved only by measures to change underlying microeconomic structures, such as benefit and pay bargaining systems.
		In contrast to the single rate postulated by the natural rate hypothesis, several of the contributors propose that there are ranges of unemployment rates consistent with steady inflation.
		The natural rate hypothesis and its testable implications Hashem Pesaran and Ron Smith; 12.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521472989&print=y (470 words)

	Unemployment Rate
		The unemployment rate represents the fraction of the labor force that is unemployed.
		During the 1996-1997 period, the unemployment rate has gradually declined and recently been running at levels below what economists believe to be the "natural rate" or NARU (the non-accelerating rate of inflation unememployment rate), that rate at which sustained unemployment can exist without leading to higher wage and price inflation.
		Unemployment rates below the natural rate (and economic growth above the 'natural' growth rate) cannot be sustained for too long: they would eventually cause higher inflation and lead the Federal Reserve to increase the Fed Funds rate in order to slow growth and prevent a pickup in inflation.
	pages.stern.nyu.edu /~nroubini/bci/Unemploymentrate.htm (481 words)

	Class Conflict and the "Natural Rate of Unemployment" Challenge - Find Articles
		Most orthodox macroeconomists had long predicted that an unemployment rate this low would lead to virtually uncontrollable acceleration of inflation, and they had therefore argued that policymakers were obligated to maintain unemployment at a higher level, perhaps as high as 6 percent.
		The argument that low rates of unemployment would lead to accelerating inflation stems, of course, from the so-called "natural rate of unemployment theory," a term first advanced in 1968 by Milton Friedman (though Edmund Phelps was the independent co-originator of the theory in its modem form).
		At a deeper level, the natural rate theory is an expression of the idea that, in a capitalist economy, sustaining full employment at decent wages is a difficult proposition that depends on how the inherent conflicts between workers and capitalists are resolved.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1093/is_6_42/ai_59282623 (861 words)

	Unemployment and Jobs in International Perspective
		Longer term levels in unemployment, or the "natural rate" of unemployment, are influenced by structural and institutional factors, including the size of governmental involvement; the bigger the relative size of government, the higher the natural rate of unemployment;
		In 1975 the U.S. unemployment rate was 8.5 percent, and it fell to 4.9 percent by 1997.
		Fortunately, the average unemployment rate for 1979 in the data set is 6.71 percent, almost exactly equal to the overall sample average.
	www.house.gov /jec/employ/intern.htm (3872 words)

	The Inflation Acceleration Controversy
		It was the "natural rate hypothesis" introduced by Milton Friedman (1968) in his famous presidential address to the American Economic Association that would do the trick.
		With this natural rate hypothesis, Friedman (1968) and Phelps (1967) established that this was indeed the case.
		The reaction to Friedman 's natural rate hypothesis was manifold.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/essays/monetarism/acceleration.htm (3976 words)

	Mahalanobis
		At that level of unemployment, real wage rates are tending on the average to rise at a 'normal' secular rate, i.e., at a rate that can be infinitely maintained so long as capital formation, technological improvements, ect., remain on their long--run trends.
		This scatterplot of the rate of change of wage rates and the percentage unemployment for the years 1861-1913 is the womb of an assumed relation that was later on baptized Phillips curve by Samuelson and Solow.
		I plotted the rate of inflation against the rate of unemployment in Austria for each year from 1962 to 2003.
	mahalanobis.twoday.net /topics/economics (2677 words)

	Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
		Instead of arguing that the unemployment rate could or should be lower, critics are questioning the integrity of the way the rate is calculated.
		Unemployment peaked in June 2003, and that peak is lower than the level of unemployment in the early 1990s for all measures of unemployment.
		The rate of unemployment that includes discouraged workers is known as “U-4.” It is currently 6.0 percent, which is 0.3 percent higher than the official rate, not the 1.4 percent gap imagined by the Post.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Labor/wm456.cfm (752 words)

	Chapter 15
		The unemployment rate is the percentage of those who would like to work but do not have jobs.
		The unemployment rate is an imperfect measure of joblessness.
		Definition of unemployment rate: the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed.
	www.seattlecentral.org /faculty/jhubert/manch15.html (2189 words)

	MaxSpeak, You Listen!: THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
		It was this conflation that led to the argument of a vertical Phillips Curve at this natural rate, assuming agents' expectations are fulfilled.
		The other problem is that the natural rate may be endogenous to the actual rate, a point actually noted, if only perfunctorily, by Phelps in his original presentation, if not by Friedman at all ever.
		The natural rate may exist, but it is easily changed and may have nothing at all to do with inlation or any Phillips Curve that might or might not exist (much of the press coverage of this has involved claiming that Phelps disproved the existence of a downward-sloping Phillips Curve).
	maxspeak.org /mt/archives/002601.html (624 words)

	St. Louis Fed: WP 2003-030A "U. S. Regional Business Cycles and the Natural Rate of Unemployment"
		Estimates of the natural rate of unemployment are important in many macroeconomic models used by economists and policy advisors.
		Accordingly, this means that the relationship between wage inflation and vacancies is convex: an increase in vacancies raises wage inflation at an increasing rate.
		Our empirical results are consistent with this and indicate that if all else had remained constant, the reduction in the dispersion of regional unemployment rates between 1982 and 2000 would have meant a two-percentage point drop in the natural rate of aggregate unemployment.
	research.stlouisfed.org /wp/more/2003-030 (172 words)

	Natural Rate of Unemployment - Biki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The natural rate of unemployment fluctuates because of changes in the levels of frictional and structural unemployment.
		The natural rate of unemployment is also referred to as the Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) as it is that level of unemployment that remains after inflation is zero.
		The distance EU (QL-QN) is equivalent to the natural rate of unemployment.
	www.boredofstudies.org /wiki/index.php?title=Natural_Rate_of_Unemployment (294 words)

	The Natural Rate of Unemployment
		Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps introduced the concept of the natural rate of unemployment reached in the long run as real factors dominate nominal influences.
		Critics of stabilization policy based on the Phillips curve argue that attempting to hold the unemployment rate below the natural rate will require accelerating inflation.
		"for every one percentage point by which the actual unemployment rate exceeds the "natural" rate of unemployment, there is a 2 to 4 % "GDP Gap".
	www.econmacro.com /challenges/natural_rate.htm (96 words)

	Dear Dr. Dollar \| Dollars & Sense
		Both the breakdown of the Phillips curve in the 1970s and the recent "disappearance" of the natural rate of unemployment are in essence a reflection of institutional and political changes that affect the bargaining strength of working people—in other words, their ability to organize effective unions and establish a decent living wage.
		At the same time, the near jobless recovery from the last recession might suggest that the "natural rate" of unemployment is on the rise again—and that we are witnessing yet another twist in the strange history of the Phillips curve!
		A moderate rate of inflation is conducive to the growth of real investment, and in the context of a decades-long squeeze on workers' wage share, there is room to expand employment without setting off a wage-price spiral.
	www.dollarsandsense.org /archives/2006/0906drdollar.html (796 words)

	Expected Inflation and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
		Two things determine the location of the Phillips curve: the expected rate of inflation and the natural rate of unemployment.
		The Phillips curve must pass through that point on the graph at which actual inflation is equal to expected inflation, and at which the actual rate of unemployment is equal to the natural rate of unemployment.
		Any shift in the natural rate of unemployment (and the natural rate of unemployment can shift) will shift the Phillips curve to the left or the right.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /multimedia/PCurve2.html (162 words)

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