Discouraged workers in developed countries and added workers in developing countries? Unemployment rate and labour force participation

Economic Modelling

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-98

  Lee, Grace H Y ^a   Parasnis, Jaai ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Granger causality; Labour force; OECD; System GMM; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901239765     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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