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Unemployment persistence: does the size of the shock matter?

Bianchi, M. and Zoega, Gylfi (1998) Unemployment persistence: does the size of the shock matter? Journal of Applied Econometrics 13 (3), pp. 283-304. ISSN 0883-7252.

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Abstract

One of the stylized facts of unemployment is that shifts in its mean rate between decades and half‐decades account for most of its variance. In this paper, we use a statistical analysis based on Markov switching regression models to identify the dates of infrequent changes in the mean of the unemployment rate series of fifteen countries. We find that in most countries, unemployment persistence is much reduced once the (infrequently) changing mean rate, induced by large shocks to unemployment, has been removed. We conclude that the observed persistence in unemployment appears to be consistent with multiple equilibria models and models with an endogeneous natural rate.

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Item Type: Article
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
Depositing User: Sarah Hall
Date Deposited: 01 Dec 2020 18:20
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 18:06
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41920

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