Is the Discouraged Worker Effect Time-Varying?

Carlo Altavilla (), Garofalo Antonio () and Vinci Concetto Paolo ()
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Garofalo Antonio: CELPE (Centre of Labour Economics and Economic Policy), University of Salerno, Italy, http://www.economia.uniparthenope.it/siti_docenti/SitoDocentiStandard/default.asp?sito=garofalo
Vinci Concetto Paolo: CELPE (Centre of Labour Economics and Economic Policy), University of Salerno, Italy, http://www.unisa.it/Facolta/Scienze_Politiche/docenti/vinci/index.php?cms=yes

No 97, CELPE Discussion Papers from CELPE (Centre of Labour Economics and Economic Policy), University of Salerno, Italy

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between the female labour force participation and the female employment rate in Italy by adopting non-linear econometric modelling. In our specification we are unable to reject a non-linear relationship. This implies that the discouraged worker effect is time-varying.

Keywords: Discouraged Workers; Non-linearity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09-30

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