A vital implication of unemployment persistence applies to the Bank of Canada's disinflation policies since it … adversely influences unemployment and considerably lengthens recessions. This paper tests for persistence in Canadian sectoral … unemployment, using the modified rescaled-range test. Our results show evidence of persistence in sectoral unemployment that …

The aims of this paper are estimate and forecast the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment, or NAIRU, for … Brazilian unemployment time series data. In doing so, we introduce a methodology for estimating mixed additive seasonal …

The Asymmetry or counter-cycle nature and its influence on the persistence of the registered unemployment rate is a … traditional topic of the economics theory’s analysis. However, studies of the Spanish unemployment done up to now have not dealt … with asymmetry. General studies about Spanish unemployment have focused all its attention on demonstrating the long …