The Short Run: The Rise and Decline of Unemployment

Robert Lucas and Donald Verry
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Chapter Chapter 9 in Restructuring the Malaysian Economy, 1999, pp 241-261 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Unemployed labour is obviously a waste of a potentially valuable resource: during the 1980s, the unemployment rate in Malaysia — combining the actively and passively unemployed — averaged 6.5 per cent and did not fall below 5 per cent. Moreover unemployment was slow to recover from the high point of 8.3 per cent during the recession in 1986. Only in the early 1990s did the unemployment rate finally achieve consistently low rates.

Keywords: Unemployment Rate; Real Wage; Nominal Wage; Real Earning; Collective Bargaining Agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27451-2_9

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