Unit roots and structural breaks in OECD unemployment

Economics Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-156

  Arestis, Philip ^a   Biefang Frisancho Mariscal, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C12; C22; Structural breaks; Unemployment; Unit roots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033425534     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00131-7     Document Type: Article

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