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Output, unemployment and Okun's law: Some evidence from the G7

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  • Molana, Hassan

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An economy may move between 'high-effort' and 'low-effort' states. Our estimates of the threshold unemployment rate which separates these states are significantly positive for G7 countries; only German data exhibit tendency to being persistently in the high-effort state.

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  • Malley, Jim & Molana, Hassan, 2008. "Output, unemployment and Okun's law: Some evidence from the G7," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 101(2), pages 113-115, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:101:y:2008:i:2:p:113-115
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