Okun's Law: Does the Austrian unemployment-GDP relationship exhibit structural breaks?

Empirical Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 553-564

  Sögner, Leopold ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Okun's law; Switching models

Indexed keywords

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; LABOR MARKET; NATIONAL ECONOMY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0041488930     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810000070     Document Type: Article

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