Youth and gender specific unemployment and Okun's law in Scandinavian countries

Oliver Hutengs and Georg Stadtmann

No 352, Discussion Papers from European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Department of Business Administration and Economics

Abstract: The paper investigates Scandinavian countries and its respective male and female youth unemployment rates. Okun's law is used to estimate age-cohort and gender specific Okun coefficients to make inference on the business-cycle dependence of young people across Scandinavian countries.

Keywords: Okun's law; labor market; youth unemployment; Scandinavia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E24 F50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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