Hysteresis in unemployment: Evidence from OECD estimates of the natural rate
Laurence Ball and
Joern Onken
International Finance, 2022, vol. 25, issue 3, 268-284
Abstract:
This paper studies the dynamics of unemployment (u) and its natural rate (u*), with u* measured by real‐time estimates for 29 countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. We find strong evidence of hysteresis: an innovation in u causes u* to change in the same direction, and therefore has permanent effects. For our baseline specification, a one‐percentage‐point deviation of u from u* for 1 year has a long‐run effect of 0.16 points on both variables. When we allow asymmetry, we find, perhaps surprisingly, that decreases in u have larger long‐run effects than increases in u.
Date: 2022
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