Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96857 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4696
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number of European countries. First, it explores its short and long memory properties by estimating both autoregressive and fractional integration models. This type of analysis sheds light on the degree of persistence of the series, and on whether policy actions are required for highly persistent series. Second, it investigates the main determinants of youth unemployment in Europe by estimating fractional cointegration models. The evidence suggests that this series is highly persistent in all the countries examined, and that in some of them there is a statistically significant long-run equilibrium relationship linking it to macroeconomic variables such as GDP and inflation.
Subjects: 
youth unemployment
fractional integration
fractional cointegration
JEL: 
C22
C32
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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