Definition of Nairu

1. the lowest rate of unemployment at which there is no inflation [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nairu

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nailset
nailsets
naily
nain
nainsell
nainsells
nainsook
nainsooks
naira
nairas
nairobi sheep disease
nairobi sheep disease viruses
nairovirus
nairoviruses
nairu (current term)
nairus
nais
naissance
naissances
naissant
naive
naive T-cell
naive art
naive falsificationism
naive realism
naiveite
naiveites
naively
naiveness

Literary usage of Nairu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. OECD Employment Outlook: Towards More and Better Jobs by Oecd (2003)
"A second way that structural reforms could have contributed to lowering the nairu would be to have improved the wage-setting ..."

2. The Development Decade?: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004 by Vishnu Padayachee (2006)
"On the other hand, policy can reduce the nairu, and/or reduce inflation, ... The nairu approach thus emphasises how policy might shift the nairu, ..."

3. Economic Report of the President of the United States, 1996 by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"CHANGES IN THE nairu The natural rate hypothesis was originally interpreted as implying a single, unchanging nairu. Today, however, it is recognized that ..."

4. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"That level, commonly called the nairu, or the nonaccelerating inflation rate of ... When the unemployment rate falls below the nairu, it does not imply that ..."

5. Finland by OECD Staff, OECD (2004)
"A1 The OECD estimate of structural unemployment This annex reports recent estimates of the rate of structural unemployment, hereafter nairu, using a Kalman ..."

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