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The Natural Rate of Unemployment

…time. Page 92 of the Economic Report of the President 2000 notes:: The short-term NAIRU, which has been centered around 5¾ percent over the postwar period and in the mid-1990s,…

FLEXIT

…You can’t see NAIRU or flexible labor market policies. Most people wouldn’t know a NAIRU from a Nehru jacket and have probably never heard of flexible labor market policies. There…

What are we To Do With the Phillips Curve ?

…point where inflation is equal to expected inflation is called the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) However the performance of the Phillips curve in the 21st century has been…