Hysteresis versus NAIRU and convergence versus divergence: The behavior of regional unemployment rates in Brazil

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 308-322

  Gomes, Fábio Augusto Reis ^a   da Silva, Cleomar Gomes ^b  

^a Ibmec   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Convergence; Hysteresis; NAIRU; Unemployment; Unit root

Indexed keywords

EID: 64649083196     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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