Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

Pierpaolo Benigno, Luca Ricci and Paolo Surico

No 16374, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The paper presents a new empirical regularity between the volatility of productivity growth and long-run unemployment, for a given level of long-run productivity growth. A theoretical framework based on asymmetric real wage rigidities is shown to have the potential to rationalize this finding. The model tends to fit U.S. long-run unemployment better than a specification based on long-run productivity growth only, especially during the Great Moderation and the Great Recession.

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Date: 2010-09
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Published as Pierpaolo Benigno & Luca Antonio Ricci & Paolo Surico, 2015. "Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 97(3), pages 698-709, July.

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