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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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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004093
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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
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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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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : evidence from the employers’ side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795475
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592399