The aims of this paper are estimate and forecast the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment, or NAIRU, for … Brazilian unemployment time series data. In doing so, we introduce a methodology for estimating mixed additive seasonal … consistent to the literature and produce reasonable forecasts for NAIRU. …

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. …

Spanish unemployment, focusing on demonstrating its long memory and generating macro-economic models with autoregressive … vectors in which the unemployment variable is presumed to be non-stationary and co-integrated. Its consideration in this … suppose, the same as Skalin and Teräsvirta (2002), a behaviour for unemployment which is locally non-stationary in a globally …

unemployment persistence. …

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 …

The Asymmetry or counter-cycle nature and its influence on the persistence of the registered unemployment rate is a … traditional topic of the economics theory’s analysis. However, studies of the Spanish unemployment done up to now have not dealt … with asymmetry. General studies about Spanish unemployment have focused all its attention on demonstrating the long …

component; a cycle in growth rates, rather than in the levels; the hysteresis phenomenon; permanent- transitory decompositions …