Youth unemployment in Europe: persistence and macroeconomic determinants

"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...

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Main Authors: Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Munich 2014
CESifo
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19110374124919385569-youth-unemployment-in-europe-p.htm
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Summary:"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."
Physical Description:19 p.
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