Sources of German unemployment: A structural vector error correction analysis

Empirical Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 409-431

  Brüggemann, Ralf ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Structural VECM; Subset SVECM; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; LABOR SUPPLY; MODEL; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33745746826     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-005-0021-x     Document Type: Article

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