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This paper applies the panel unit root test proposed by Im, Pesaran and Shin (1997) to test for unemployment hysteresis … in the US states and the EU countries against the alternative of a natural rate. The results show that hysteresis for the …
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The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
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for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a new statistical framework that tests for the … the 0/1 paradigm about the order of integration, usually implemented for testing the hypothesis of hysteresis in … hysteresis hypotheses, but stress the importance of estimating the degree of persistence of seasonal shocks together with the …
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for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the … the 0/1 paradigm about the order of integration, usually implemented for testing the hypothesis of hysteresis in … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
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This paper explores the evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal …
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for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the … the 0/1 paradigm about the order of integration, usually implemented for testing the hypothesis of hysteresis in … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729418
Nahezu alle Institutionen –Kündigungsschutz, Gewerkschaften, Lohnspreizung, Arbeitslosenversicherung etc.- wurde verdächtigt und schuldig gesprochen die tragische Entwicklung der Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa verursacht zu haben. US-amerikanische Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen wurden zum Benchmark...
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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...
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The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073937