Is the Discouraged Worker Effect Time-Varying?

Carlo Altavilla, Antonio Garofalo () and Concetto Paolo Vinci
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Antonio Garofalo: CELPE University of Salerno, University of Naples Parthenope

CELPE Discussion Papers from CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between the female labour force participation and the female employment rate in Italy by adopting non-linear econometric modelling. In our specification we are unable to reject a nonlinear relationship. This implies that the discouraged worker effect is timevarying.

Keywords: Discouraged Workers; Non-linearity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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