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 …

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 …

particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal …This paper investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or … unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

This paper explores the evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal … Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

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 …

avoid shirking, firms pay fair wages. The wage norms change endogenously, and the result is hysteresis with respect to both …

the introduction of the single currency. Panel unit root (Pesaran, 2007) and stationarity tests (Hadri and Kurozumi, 2008 …) that take into account cross-sectional dependence are also estimated. The results remain inconclusive as panel stationarity … tests fail to support PPP whereas panel unit root tests fail to reject PPP for the whole sample and for the period before …

growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor markets adjustment processes, (b) the …