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Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates

Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Tansel, Aysit - 2017

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …

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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?

Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of aMultifactor Error Structure

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Yamagata, Takashi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed byPesaran (2007) to the case of a multifactor error structure. The basic idea is to exploitinformation regarding the unobserved factors that are shared by other time series in additionto the variable under...

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Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We...

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Regime and Treatment Effects in Duration Models: Decomposing Expectation and Transplant Effects on the Kidney Waitlist

Kastoryano, Stephen - 2022

This paper proposes a causal decomposition framework for settings in which an initial regime randomization influences the timing of a treatment duration. The initial randomization and treatment affect in turn a duration outcome of interest. Our empirical application considers the survival of...

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Do Non-monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals

Sayli, Melisa; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Blanden, Jo; Bojke, Chris - 2022

Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization's human capital. In the public sector, where wage increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage non-monetary working conditions to retain their workers. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage...

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