HYSTERESIS IN UNEMPLOYMENT REVISITED: EVIDENCE FROM PANEL LM UNIT ROOT TESTS WITH HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURAL BREAKS

Jun‐ De Lee, Chien‐Chiang Lee and Chun-Ping Chang
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Bulletin of Economic Research, 2009, vol. 61, issue 4, 325-334

Abstract: This paper applies the panel LM unit root tests with heterogeneous structural breaks in level by Im et al. (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 67 (2005), pp. 393–419) to re‐examine the validity of hysteresis in the unemployment rates of 19 OECD countries. Our empirical findings are favourable to the stationarity of the unemployment rates, i.e., the unemployment hysteresis hypothesis is strongly rejected. Our results suggest that shocks to unemployment rates are temporary and soon converge when we control for breaks. A major policy implication of the study is that a fiscal or monetary stabilization policy would not have permanent effects on the unemployment rates of the 19 OECD countries.

Date: 2009
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