Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259216 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe [ISSN:] 2082-6737 [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] De Gruyter [Place:] Warsaw [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 39-55
Publisher: 
De Gruyter, Warsaw
Abstract: 
The focus of our study is on determining whether unemployment rates in 8 New Industrialized Economies conform to the natural rate hypothesis or the hysteresis hypothesis. To this end, we employ a variety of unit of unit root testing procedures to quarterly data collected between 2002:q1 and 2017:q1. Summarizing of our findings, conventional unit root tests which account neither for asymmetries nor structural breaks produce the most inconclusive results. On the other hand, tests which incorporate structural breaks while ignoring asymmetries tends to favour the natural rate hypothesis for our panel of countries. However, simultaneously accounting for asymmetries and unobserved structural breaks seemingly produces the most robust findings and confirms hysteresis in all unemployment rates except for Asian economies/countries of Thailand and the Philippines.
Subjects: 
natural rate hypothesis
hysteresis hypothesis
unemployment
unit root tests
Fourier function approximation
newly industrialized economies
JEL: 
C22
C51
E24
J60
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Document Type: 
Article

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