This paper investigates unemployment persistence in the 27 EU member states by applying fractional integration methods … in others and not changing in a minority of cases. On the whole, our results support the hysteresis hypothesis for the …

This paper investigates the empirical relevance of different unemployment theories in three major economies, namely the … UK, the US and Japan, by estimating the degree of dependence in the unemployment series. Both univariate and multivariate …. Specifically, when taking a univariate approach, the unit root null cannot be rejected in case of the UK and Japanese unemployment …

This paper investigates unemployment persistence in the 27 EU member states by applying fractional integration methods … in others and not changing in a minority of cases. On the whole, our results support the hysteresis hypothesis for the …

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries … are necessary to prevent short-term unemployment from becoming structural (long-term). …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

impact on labor productivity and they lead to a fall in the unemployment rate. Collective bargaining reforms do not seem to …

impact on labor productivity and they lead to a fall in the unemployment rate. Collective bargaining reforms do not seem to …