The Asian financial crisis and the natural rate of unemployment: Estimates from a structural VAR for the newly industrializing economies of Asia

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-64

  Groenewold, Nicolaas ^a   Tang, Sam Hak Kan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL CRISIS; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; KOREA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 1542505985     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2004.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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