Unemployment and hysteresis: A nonlinear unobserved components approach

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pérez Alonso, Alicia ^a   Di Sanzo, Silvestro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Confcommercio ^*  (Italy)

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