The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment, and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s

Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund S. Phelps

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 394-431

  Nickell, Stephen ^a   Nunziata, Luca ^b,d   Ochel, Wolfgang ^c   Quintini, Glenda ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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