Unemployment Hysteresis and Capacity

Terry O'Shaughnessy

No 82, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines an open economy model in which equilibrium unemployment depends on capacity in the traded-goods sector. The model is estimated using U.K. quarterly data and compared with alternative concepts of equilibrium unemployment based on labour market variables (as in Layard and Nickell, 1986) or on the price of oil and the real interest rate (as in Carruth, Hooker and Oswald, 1998). The capacity model displays a non-linear hysteresis mechanism through which capacity utilisation and the degree of volatility of the real exchange rate interact to generate changes in equilibrium unemployment. This is modelled as logistic smooth transition autoregressive (LSTAR) process.

Keywords: unemployment; hysteresis; capacity; smooth transition; real exchange rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 E24 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-10-01
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