On the dynamics of unemployment in a developing economy: Colombia

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Borradores de Economía; No. 208
Date published
2002-05-16
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2002-05-16
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Iregui-Bohórquez, Ana María
Otero, Jesús
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spa
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Abstract
This paper estimates an asymmetric error correction model to analyse the dynamic behaviour of the Colombian unemployment rate. We find evidence that wages above their long-run equilibrium level do increase unemployment, but wages below this level do not r
JEL Codes
C32 - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space ModelsJ64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job SearchJ31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Keywords
Unemployment ; Wage disequilibrium ; Cointegration ; Non-linearities ; Colombia ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5226
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/5226
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.208
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/208.html
https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000094/003298.html
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