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 …

institutions in aggregate demand liquidity, in that total buy (sell) volume predicts increasing (decreasing) institutional … ownership. Institutions also tend to trade in large or very small sizes, in that buy (sell) volume at these sizes predicts …

equity. Using the African scenario, this paper argued that although many of the institutions needed for strong income growth …

, unemployment exhibits persistence in the sense of duration dependence: the probability of obtaining a job decreases in the length …