1995-12-01
Quarterly U.S. unemployment: cycles, seasons and asymmetries
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Empirical Economics: a quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna , Volume 20 - Issue 4 p. 717- 725
This paper documents three stylized facts for the quarterly unemployment rate in the United States. Firstly, unemployment is asymmetric over the business cycle, i.e. it rises sharply in recessions and it falls slowly in expansions. Secondly, its seasonal fluctuations are not constant across the two business cycle stages in the sense that there is less seasonality in recession periods. Thirdly, the effect of shocks to the unemployment rate in expansions seem transitory, while this effect is permanent in recessions. Some implications of these stylized facts for empirical macroeconomics and seasonal adjustment are discussed.
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doi.org/10.1007/BF01206066, hdl.handle.net/1765/2091 | |
Empirical Economics: a quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna | |
Organisation | Erasmus School of Economics |
Franses, P. H. (1995). Quarterly U.S. unemployment: cycles, seasons and asymmetries. Empirical Economics: a quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 20(4), 717–725. doi:10.1007/BF01206066 |