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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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In this paper a mixed-frequency VAR à la Mariano & Murasawa (2004) with Markov regime switching in the parameters is estimated by Bayesian inference. Unlike earlier studies, that used the pseuo-EM algorithm of Dempster, Laird & Rubin (1977) to estimate the model, this paper describes how to...
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We use a dynamic factor model to provide a semi-structural representation for 101 quarterly US macroeconomic series. We find that (i) the US economy is well described by a number of structural shocks between two and five. Focusing on the four-shock specification, we identify, using sign...
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A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can … potentially explain the unemployment crisis in the Great Depression. The limited responses of wages from credible bargaining to … labor market conditions, along with the congestion externality from matching frictions, cause the unemployment rate to rise …
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This paper outlines a simple regression-based method to decompose the variance of an aggregate time series into the variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and employment to cyclical output growth across a panel...
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increase in economic policy uncertainty on unemployment in recessions and expansions. We find the response of unemployment to … confirms that the contribution of EPU shocks to the volatility of unemployment at business cycle frequencies is markedly larger …
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unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States. -- Business …
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demonstrated that the inconclusive evidence is not only caused by measurement problems, estimation method and composition bias as …
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unemployment rate are estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The Markov switching model is identified by constraining the … difference of the unemployment rate. Out of sample forecasts are obtained from Bayesian predictive densities. Although both …
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