 Uma aplicação da Lei de Okun no Brasil (1996-2013)Jaqueline Moraes Assis Gouveia () and
Paulo Ricardo Feistel ()
REOESTE - Revista de Economia do Centro-Oeste, 2015, vol. 1, issue 1, 81-90 Abstract: This paper aims to estimate the Okun’s Law for the Brazilian economy using the data from IBGE to quarterly values of the national and industrial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 1996 to 2013 and data from the Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego to the unemployment rates. The model used for the estimation is the gap model, which express how much the gap of the product relative to its potential affects the variation of the unemployment rate considering the nation as a whole and specifically the industrial sector. Thus, we can verify how sensible is the variation of the unemployment rate relative to the economic growth and from the coefficients’ significance confirm the statistical validity of the Okun’s Law in Brazil. Keywords: Okun’s Law; Brazil; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ufb:rpaper:v:1:y:2015:i:1:p:81-90 Access Statistics for this article REOESTE - Revista de Economia do Centro-Oeste is currently edited by Sérgio F.M. Filho More articles in REOESTE - Revista de Economia do Centro-Oeste from Nepec - Curso de Ciencias Economicas da Universidade Federal de Goias - FACE Universidade Federal de Goias UFG - Campus Samambaia (Campus II) Rodovia Goiania/Nova Veneza, Km 0 CEP 74690-900, Goiania, Brasil. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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