Arbeitspapier

Detecting unemployment hysteresis: A simultaneous unobserved components model with Markov switching

We construct a new Markov-switching unobserved components framework for the analysis of hysteresis effects. Our model unifies the ingredients of trend-cycle decomposition, identification of spillovers between the components and asymmetry over the business cycle. Employing the model for Germany and the U.S. over 55 years, we find that the decades-long upward trend in German unemployment is fully explained by hysteresis. The Great Recession was well absorbed because both hysteresis effects and structural unemployment were substantially reduced after institutional reforms. In contrast, U.S. unemployment did not evolve according to hysteresis, not even during the Great Recession.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 28/2015

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Thema
hysteresis
structural unemployment
business cycle
unobserved components
Markov switching

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Klinger, Sabine
Weber, Enzo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
(wo)
Nürnberg
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Klinger, Sabine
  • Weber, Enzo
  • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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