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The Measurement of Persistence and Hysteresis in Aggregate Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

unemployment persistence. …

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On the Evidence of Non-Linear Structure in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment … reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for Canadian unemployment. …

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Estimadores compuestos en estadística regional: aplicación para la tasa de variación de la ocupación en la industria

Costa, Àlex; Satorra, Albert; Ventura, Eva - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

This work is part of a project studying the performance of model based estimators in a small area context. We have chosen a simple statistical application in which we estimate the growth rate of accupation for several regions of Spain. We compare three estimators: the direct one based on...

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An empirical evaluation of small area estimators

Costa, Àlex; Satorra, Albert; Ventura, Eva - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper investigates the comparative performance of five small area estimators. We use Monte Carlo simulation in the context of both theoretical and empirical populations. In addition to the direct and indirect estimators, we consider the optimal composite estimator with population weights,...

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Using composite estimators to improve both domain and total area estimation

Costa, Àlex; Satorra, Albert; Ventura, Eva - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

In this article we propose using small area estimators to improve the estimates of both the small and large area parameters. When the objective is to estimate parameters at both levels accurately, optimality is achieved by a mixed sample design of fixed and proportional allocations. In the mixed...

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What Happens After A Technology Shock? A Bayesian Perspective

Mikhail, Ossama - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of a positive technology shock on per capita hours worked within the class of Bayesian Vector Auto-Regressive [BVAR] models. Such a framework avoids the current debate regarding the specification issue of per capita hours [level versus first-difference...

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Can Sectoral Shifts Generate Persistent Unemployment in Real Business Cycle Models?

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

This paper extends the standard Real Business Cycle model to incorporate sectoral shifts in unemployment. Using … possibility of generating persistent aggregate unemployment. Calibrated to Canadian data, the models suggest that the introduction … the observed persistence in unemployment. Empirically, we estimated a Vector Auto-Regressive model and successfully …

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Testing and Estimating Persistence in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062535

Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004

associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …

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The Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions in the Process of Development

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408243