Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/88771 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1345
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the empirical relevance of different unemployment theories in three major economies, namely the UK, the US and Japan, by estimating the degree of dependence in the unemployment series. Both univariate and multivariate long memory methods are used. The results vary depending on whether the former or the latter approach is followed. Specifically, when taking a univariate approach, the unit root null cannot be rejected in case of the UK and Japanese unemployment series, and some degree of mean reversion (d < 1) is found in the case of the US unemployment rate. When applying multivariate methods instead, higher orders of integration are still found for the UK and Japanese series, but the NAIRU hypothesis cannot be rejected in the case of the US.
Subjects: 
Unemployment rate
Multivariate long memory
Fractional integration
JEL: 
C22
C32
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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