Is Unemployment on Steroids in Advanced Economies? /

Despite conventional macroeconomic theory is based on the idea that demand shocks can only have temporary effects on unemployment, several European economies display highly persistent unemployment dynamics. The theory of hysteresis challenges this view and points out that, under certain conditions,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Di Bella, Gabriel
Other Authors: Grigoli, Francesco, Ramirez, Francisco
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/169
Online Access:Full text available on IMF