Have European Unemployment Rates Converged?

Dionisio Ramírez Carrera and Gabriel Rodríguez
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Dionisio Ramírez Carrera: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

No 2009-007, Working Papers from Banco Central de Reserva del Perú

Abstract: Using di¤erent unit root statistics and the approach of Tomljanovich and Vogelsang (2002), we test for the existence of stochastic and beta-convergence in the unemployment rates of a set of thirteen European countries. Using quarterly data for the period 1984:1-2005:4, we observe that there has taken place a convergence process in the majority of European unemployment rates. This process has become more intense since 1993.

Keywords: Unemployment Rate; European Union; Stochastic Convergence and beta-convergence. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C52 E24 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-03
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