Cyclical unemployment and sectoral shifts: Further tests of the Lilien hypothesis for the UK

Economics Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-60

  Mills, Terence C ^a   Pelloni, Gianluigi ^b   Zervoyianni, Athina ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme bounds; Sectoral shifts; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305831     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(96)00832-4     Document Type: Article

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