8 percent, very close to the natural rate of unemployment, that is, the rate that can be expected from the usual movement of workers in and among industries as jobs are created and destroyed.
What does NARU stand for?
NARU stands for Natural Rate of Unemployment (Milton Friedman theory)
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Friedman is also noted for his critique of the Phillips curve and the concept of the natural rate of unemployment.
The idea that the economy gravitates towards a natural rate of unemployment that, in the words of Milton Friedman (1968), "is the level that would be ground out by the Walrasian system of general equilibrium equations, provided there is imbedded in them the actual structural characteristics of the labour and commodity markets, including market imperfections, stochastic variability in demands and supplies, the cost of gathering information about job vacancies and labour availabilities, the costs of mobility, and so on.
Over 80 percent of respondents predict that the unemployment rate will not fall back below 7 percent until the second half of 2012 (the natural rate of unemployment is estimated to be somewhere around 6 percent).
Some of the factors trying to explain the "movement" of the natural rate of unemployment are labor productivity, technological change, world real interest rates, real exchange rates, stock prices, and energy prices.