Following Konya (2000a, 2000b), this paper is the third in a series analyzing unemployment in Australia in the period of 1960 to 1997 with special regard to the unit-root versus stationarity hypotheses. It provides new evidence by allowing for the possibility of two endogenous breaks in the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the rate and level of Australian unemployment, and also their logarithms, in the period of 1960 to 1997, with special regard to the unit-root versus stationarity hypotheses. Theoretically, the level of unemployment, the rate of unemployment and the logarithm...

Using several different unit root/stationarity tests on single time series Konya (2000) found the logarithm of real GDP of most OECD countries behaving as a random walk during the last four decades. This outcome, however, might be due to the generally low power of these tests. The aim of this...