Canadian regional labour market evolutions: A long-run restrictions SVAR analysis

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1855-1871

  Partridge, Mark D ^a   Rickman, Dan S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; MACROECONOMICS; MONETARY POLICY; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

CANADA;

EID: 78649705564     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840601131789     Document Type: Article

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