unemployment persistence. …

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. …

Keynes (1936) said that shortage of money caused by hoarding or failure to invest led to unemployment, but Lucas (1972 …) said that money does not affect unemployment. The tables have now turned. Gani (2003) produced a model of indirect trade in … which money is necessary as a means of payment. Involuntary unemployment occurs under indirect exchange, just when the …

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 …

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 …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …