Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21199 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 341
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of asymmetries and compare the testing procedures. The results indicate that unemployment increases more quickly than it decreases, which is consistent with the pattern implied by matching models with endogenous job destruction.
Subjects: 
Asymmetries
unemployment dynamics
matching model
JEL: 
E32
J20
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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