It is widely agreed that the natural unemployment rate recovered strongly in several OECD economies in the 1990s while not yet in the others. This paper draws on models by the authors endogenizing the path of the natural rate in order to trace the causes and apportion the credit. The results...

La fin de la bulle technologique et financière des années 1996-2000 a conduit à un net ralentissement de la croissance mondiale en 2001 (2,3 % après 4,4 % en 2000). Le repli de l’activité est avant tout industriel et commun à de nombreuses régions du monde : la mondialisation n’est...

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[eng] Japan vs. the United States : a comparison of labor market flexibility David Jestaz, Olivier Passet It is a well documented fact that no substantial shift of employment in Japan and in the United States have been observed since the seventies. The unemployment rate in both countries have...

It is widely agreed that the natural unemployment rate recovered strongly in several OECD economies in the 1990s while not yet in the others. This paper draws on models by the authors endogenizing the path of the natural rate in order to trace the causes and apportion the credit. The results...

It is widely agreed that the natural unemployment rate recovered strongly in several OECD economies in the 1990s while not yet in the others. This paper draws on models by the authors endogenizing the path of the natural rate in order to trace the causes and apportion the credit. The results...