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Unemployment equilibria and input prices: Theory and evidence from the United States

Carruth, Alan, Hooker, Mark A., Oswald, Andrew J. (1998) Unemployment equilibria and input prices: Theory and evidence from the United States. Review of Economics and Statistics, 80 (4). pp. 621-8. ISSN 0034-6535. (doi:10.1162/003465398557708) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:17627)

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Abstract

The paper develops an efficiency-wage model in which input prices affect the equilibrium rate of unemployment. We show that a simple framework based on only two prices (the real price of oil and the real rate of interest) is able to explain the main postwar movements in the rate of U.S. joblessness. The equations do well in forecasting unemployment many years out of sample, and provide evidence that the oil-price spike associated with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait appears to be a component of the "mystery'' recession that followed.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1162/003465398557708
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: I. Ghose
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2009 08:15 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:55 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/17627 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Carruth, Alan.

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