His book "Structural Slumps", published in 1994, is an ambitious attempt to provide a general theory of how the natural rate of unemployment evolves.

在他于1994年出版的《结构性低迷》一书中，他雄心勃勃的试图给出一个自然率失业演化的一般理论。

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And it heard evidence that migrants may push down the "natural" rate of unemployment, since they are more flexible than sluggish Britons about which jobs they take.

同时，文章又说，移民会降低“自然”失业率，因为那些移民相对于迟钝的英国人来说，在工作的选择方面要灵活的多。

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If America's Labour market is less efficient, the country's "structural" or "natural" rate of unemployment will be higher.

如果美国劳动力市场的效率降低，该国的“结构”或“属性”失业率就会增加。

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The new-economy crowd insists this is nonsense: inflation is dead, and the concept of a natural rate of unemployment outdated.

ECONOMIST: Back to the glory days?

Unemployment has fallen to 4.7% of the labour force in America and to 5% in Britain the lowest level for around two decades, and well below most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment below which inflation starts to rise.

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By the late-1970s, though, we began to talk about a natural rate of unemployment and the discussion became not one about true, full employment but this natural rate of 2 or 4% instead, which was full employment by another name (full employment as unemployment, if you see what I mean).

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