The rise in unemployment since the 1980s has been predominantly understood as driven by short-term shocks, or rigid labor market institutions. Aggregate demand is usually assumed to have no long-run impact on unemployment, but recent contributions call this into question. This paper adopts a...

The notion of development blocks suggests the co-evolution of technologies and industries through complementarities and the overcoming of imbalances. This paper studies groups of closely related industries and their co-evolution in the network of Swedish product innovations, by combining...