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This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of …/cointegration techniques which allow for the possibility that unemployment is highly persistent. In line with other studies, we find that all … equilibrium model with highly persistent shocks might be adequate to account for the observed behaviour of unemployment …
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This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional … suggest that the UK unemployment may be explained in terms of lagged values of the real oil prices and the real interest rate …, with the order of integration of unemployment ranging between 0.50 and 1. Thus, unemployment shows the characteristics of …
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proposed in this article for modelling the U.K. unemployment. This enables us a better understanding of the low … fractional integration, may be a feasible way of modelling unemployment, also showing that its order of integration is much … erroneous results. -- long memory ; unemployment ; fractional integration …
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In 2001, the Fed has lowered interest rates in a series of cuts, starting from 6.5 % at the end of 2000 to 2.0 % by early November. This paper asks, whether the Federal Reserve Bank has been surprising the markets, taking as given the conventional view about the effect of monetary policy shocks....
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Most models of labor markets and (un)employment neglect how competition among firms or sectors of the economy affects … unemployment. Instead of solving the model in full generality we offer several equilibrium scenarios showing that certain economic …
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same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …
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jobs in rough times separate analyses are carried out those who have entered the job directly from unemployment or non …
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This paper evaluates complementarities of labor market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a stochastic dynamic general equililbriurn model econorny. Matching between workers and vacancies with endogenous search intensity, Nash-bargained wages, payroll taxation, and...
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In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural … shocks and assess their importance for unemployment by impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions …
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This paper evaluates complementarities of labor market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model economy. Matching between workers and vacancies with endogenous time spent in search, Nash{bargained wages, payroll taxation, and...
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