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 …

This paper proposes a model of the US unemployment rate which accounts for both its asymmetry and its long memory. Our … standard limit distribution. The empirical results suggest that the US unemployment rate can be specified in terms of a … with path dependency rather than a NAIRU model with an underlying unemployment equilibrium rate, hence giving support to …

. Second, we apply it to test for breaks in the unemployment rate in the US, the UK and Japan. Our results shed some light on … the empirical relevance of alternative unemployment theories for these countries. Specifically, a structuralist …