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nai·ru

 (nā′ro͞o)
n.
The lowest unemployment rate that an economy can accommodate without causing inflation.

[n(on)a(ccelerating) i(nflation) r(ate of) u(nemployment).]
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NAIRU

(ˈnaɪruː)
n acronym for
(Economics) non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment: the rate of unemployment at which inflation is neither accelerating nor decelerating. Also called: natural rate of unemployment
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Walking into Nairu, which translates from Nile in Japanese, guests are greeted by a richly-coloured, teak-wood doorway and patterned floor, and a colourful street-art hand-painted mural showcasing Asian history and culture.
To find NAIRU, Okun's law is applied, which states that for an unemployed economy, a 2.5 percent increase in real GDP will reduce unemployment by roughly 1 percent.
The time-varying NAIRU and its implications for economic policy.
It was assumed, in line with standard macroeconomic theory, that the labour market was in equilibrium when the unemployment rate was equal to the NAIRU level, and that excess labour supply or demand occurs when the unemployment is higher or lower than than NAIRU.
To be clear, the FOMC are raising interest rates to increase the unemployment rate, which they estimate is currently below the NAIRU. Hence why, for them, the lack of wage growth is a puzzle and a mystery.
Stimulative financial conditions must boost the growth of aggregate demand and employment by enough to move employment above full employment or equivalently the unemployment rate below its full employment level or NAIRU as well as depress other measures of slack in the economy.
At the moment, the (https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/recurringdata/51135-2018-04-economicprojections_1.xlsx) Congressional Budget Office puts NAIRU  at 4.6 percent, a little above the 3.9 percent unemployment rate.
Just five years ago, as discussion swirled about whether there had been a rise of "structural unemployment" caused by a mismatch between the skills workers had and those the job market needed, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that NAIRU was 5.5 per cent, and Fed leaders' forecasts were in the same ballpark.
At full employment, unemployment will be at the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) and output will be at potential.
The OECD distinguishes between a long-run structural rate of unemployment (NRU), corresponding to Friedman's original natural rate, determined by economic fundamentals, and the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) as a short-run phenomenon.
Both NAIRU and potential output are basically theoretical constructs that are fundamentally unobservable.
The natural rate of unemployment is sometimes called the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) because it is consistent with an economy that is growing at its long-term potential so there is no upward or downward pressure on inflation.