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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach

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dc.creator Karanassou, Marika
dc.creator Snower, Dennis J.
dc.date 2000
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:05:41Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:05:41Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2470
dc.identifier ppn:318739909
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2470
dc.description The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long it takes for unemployment to reach long-run equilibrium) and quantitative (depicting the cumulative amount of unused labor resources generated in the aftermath of a shock). Furthermore, we estimate the contributions of individual lagged adjustments to these aggregate measures. Our empirical results indicate that (i) lagged adjustment processes play an important part in explaining how temporary and permanent shocks affect unemployment, (ii) temporary and permanent shocks can yield quite different inter-country comparisons of unemployment effects, and (iii) the quantitative and temporal measures can also yield markedly different inter-country comparisons. This analysis provides insights into the driving forces underlying the movements of unemployment in the countries above.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher IZA Bonn
dc.relation Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 127
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J32
dc.subject E37
dc.subject E30
dc.subject J64
dc.subject J60
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Unemployment
dc.subject Natural rate hypothesis
dc.subject Labor markets
dc.subject Employment
dc.subject Adjustment costs
dc.subject Arbeitslosigkeit
dc.subject Hysteresis
dc.subject Schock
dc.subject Arbeitsmarkt
dc.subject Wirtschaftliche Anpassung
dc.subject Anpassungskosten
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Vergleich
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.subject Großbritannien
dc.subject USA
dc.title Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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