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The Measurement of Persistence and Hysteresis in Aggregate Unemployment.
Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003
unemployment persistence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126077
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412624
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Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004
"Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592441
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Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004
"Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537134
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412613
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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