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Federal minimum wage hikes do reduce teenage employment : the time series effects of minimum wages in the US revisited

Bazen, Stephen; Marimoutou, Vêlayoudom - 2016

teenage employment, at a time when some studies were casting doubt on the existence of such an effect. In this note we re … significant effect of minimum wages on teenage employment. The conclusion reached is the same as in the original paper, and the …In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment …

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Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment : The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited

Bazen, Stephen - 2016

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Labor-force participation rates and the informal value of unemployment rates : evidence from disaggregated US data

Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2010

The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness....

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578754

International labour force participation rates by gender : unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...