. For these purposes, panel unit root tests are employed to improve power against univariate counterparts. Since cross … section correlation is a distinct feature of the underlying panel data, results are based on various second generation panel …

employs a panel data technique is used. This estimator is suited for integrated annual macroeconomic panel data sets to … explains the concept of panel unit roots and panel cointegration and introduces the underlying empirical approach. Next …

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … so that our identification is not affected by the Faust andLeeper (1997) critique. We find widespread hysteresis: demand …

increase in the pace of job creation and destruction may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment;the effects … may be out of its unemployment equilibrium for quite a long time after a shock occurs.The novelty of the model is that it … takes explicitly account of the propagationof shocks through the various duration classes of unemployment andallows for …

Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … problems, is overcome by adopting a Bayesian Model Averaging approach. I apply this method to a panel data set that covers 17 … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …

influence of unobserved heterogeneity in the framework of panel data models. The analysis shows that the probability for an …