In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …

highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures …

by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 …-specific firm performance, suggesting a significant role for 'insider forces' in wage determination. Unemployment had a strong …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

wages. A one-point increase in the unemployment rate decreases wages of newly hired male workers by around 2.8% and by just …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada …. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …