Output and Unemployment Dynamics in the United States: 1950-1985

George Evans

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1989, vol. 4, issue 3, 213-37

Abstract: For U.S. data over 1950-85 the stochastic components of GNP growth and the unemployment rate appear to be stationary, and there is substantial feedback between these variables. The unconditional mean rate of unemployment in a joint model thus provides a natural benchmark in discussions of the "business cycle." A bivariate VAR model is used to describe output-unemployment dynamics to estimate the degree of persistence of output innovations, and to decompose output into trend and cycle. The bivariate results are interpreted using a restricted VAR and it is shown that a closely related cyclical measure can be obtained directly from the Okun's Law equation. Copyright 1989 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1989
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