Baltagi, Badi H.; Rokicki, Bartłomiej; Souza, Kênia … - 2014
elasticity of -0.08 when the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate. We also find that … fact, we find that the unemployment elasticity for women is statistically insignificant. Applying gender specific … unemployment rates, the elasticity for men decreases to -0.09, while the elasticity for women remains statistically insignificant …