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Business Cycles, Optimal Interest Rate, and Recession Forecast From Yield Curve, Unemployment, GDP, and Payrolls
Lihn, Stephen H.T. - 2019
We developed a factor regression model, nicknamed “GUPTY”, to study the business cycles, and their relation to the monetary policy. It covers several major macro-economic quantities, including unemployment rate, GDP, and weekly payrolls in the U.S. after WWII. The model postulates that these...
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Longitudinal patterns in the duration of unemployment insurance claims in Canada
Corak, Miles - 1992
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Education, skills, and duration of unemployment in Ghana
Yirenkyi, Ebenezer Gyan; Debrah, Godwin; Adanu, Kwami; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-12
, has been labelled as the cause of rising unemployment and prolonged unemployment duration in Ghana. This paper presents … new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … unemployment duration. We found that education reduces the duration of unemployment in general. However, the effect is higher for …
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Testing for threshold effect in ARFIMA models : application to US unemployment rate data
Lahiani, Amine; Scaillet, Olivier - 2008
Macroeconomic time series often involve a threshold effect in their ARMA representation, and exhibit long memory features. In this paper we introduce a new class of threshold ARFIMA models to account for this. The threshold effect is introduced in the autoregressive and/or the fractional...
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The last word on the wage curve?
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2003
In the last decade we have seen extensive international research on the extent to which wages of individuals respond to changing local labour market conditions. For many countries and periods, an inverse relationship between wages and unemployment rates has been found. Following Blanchflower and...
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New accuracy measures for point and interval forecasts : a case study for Romania’s forecasts of inflation and unemployment rate
Bratu, Mihaela - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2013)
The objective of this research is to introduce in literature new measures of accuracy for point forecasts (radical of order n of the mean of squared errors, mean for the difference between each predicted value and the mean of the effective values, ratio of radicals of sum of squared errors...
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The validity of Okun's law in Nigeria : a difference model approach
Babalola, Sikiru Jimoh; Saka, Jimoh Olakunle; Adenuga, … - 2013
This paper, empirically, tests the validity of Okun’s law in Nigerian economy from 1980-2012. The two versions of the difference model approach of the Okun’s law are used even though one of them is frequently used in the literature. We utilize Var-cointegration method and examine the...
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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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Does Unemployment Steer Personal and Corporate Bankruptcies?
Platt, Harlan D. - 2012
When companies fail workers lose their jobs which raises the unemployment rate and some displaced workers with less financial wealth, larger financial obligations, and who are the sole bread winners in a family become likely candidates for a personal bankruptcy filing. The central role played by...
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