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Does unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …

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International labour force participation rates by gender : unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2011 - Revised: May, 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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The ins and outs of unemployment in the long run : unemployment flows and the natural rate

Tasci, Murat - 2012 - This version: October 2012, First version: August 2010

This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...

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Female labor force participation in five selected MENA countries: an age-period-cohort analysis

Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020

This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...

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The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market

Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kırdar, Murat Güray - 2018

We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show that relaxing the common-trend assumption of this methodology -unlike recent papers in the same...

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Output-employment relationship across sectors : a long-versus short-run perspective

Şahin, Afşin; Tansel, Aysıt; Berument, Hakan - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output...

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Local institutional quality and economic growth : a panel-VAR analysis of Italian NUTS-3 regions

Corradini, Carlo - In: Economics letters 198 (2021), pp. 1-4

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Institutions and growth : a GMM/IV Panel VAR approach

Góes, Carlos - In: Economics letters 138 (2016), pp. 85-91

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