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- García-Cintado, Alejandro C.
(Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica)
- Romero-Ávila, Diego
(Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica)
- Usabiaga, Carlos
(Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica)
Abstract
This paper investigates the stochastic properties of Spanish regional unemployment rates using quarterly data spanning the period 1976(1)-2013(2). Towards this end, we employ the Panel Analysis of Nonstationarity in Idiosyncratic and Common components (PANIC) procedures of Bai and Ng (2004, 2010), which allow for the decomposition of the observed unemployment rate series into a common component and an idiosyncratic component. This enables us to identify the exact source behind the nonstationary behavior in Spanish regional unemployment. Our analysis provides clear-cut evidence for the hysteresis hypothesis, which appears to be caused by a common stochastic trend driving all the regional unemployment series. These results are largely backed up by those obtained from the median-unbiased estimation of the persistence parameter which equals one for the common factor and to a lesser extent from the half-life estimate obtained from impulse-response functions that equals 12.5 years for the case of shocks hitting the common trend. This persistence analysis also provides evidence of stationarity for most of the idiosyncratic series (two regions being the exception), as found in the PANIC analysis.// Este artículo estudia las propiedades estocásticas de las tasas regionales de desempleo español usando datos trimestrales del periodo 1976(1)-2013(2). Para ello, se emplean los métodos Panel Analysis of Nonstationarity in Idiosyncratic and Common components (PANIC) de Bai y Ng (2004 y 2010), que permiten la descomposición de las series observadas de tasas de desempleo en un componente común y un componente idiosincrásico. Esto nos permite identificar con precisión la fuente subyacente en el comportamiento no estacionario del desempleo regional español. Nuestro análisis ofrece evidencia clara de la hipótesis de histéresis, que parece estar causada por una tendencia estocástica común que impulsa a las series de desempleo regionales. Estos resultados están respaldados por los obtenidos de la estimación insesgada en la mediana del parámetro de persistencia, que arroja un valor unitario para el factor común, y en menor medida por la estimación de la vida media obtenida a partir de funciones impulso-respuesta, que arroja un valor de 12.5 para el caso de las perturbaciones que afectan a la tendencia común. Este análisis de persistencia también ofrece evidencia de estacionariedad para la mayoría de las series idiosincrásicas (salvo para dos regiones), en la línea del análisis PANIC
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García-Cintado, Alejandro C. & Romero-Ávila, Diego & Usabiaga, Carlos, 2016.
"Análisis PANIC del desempleo español,"
El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(331), pages .611-646, julio-sep.
Handle:
RePEc:elt:journl:v:83:y:2016:i:331:p:611-646
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v83i331.213
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Keywords
tasa de desempleo;
persistencia;
análisis PANIC;
factor común;
estimación insesgada en la mediana;
vida media de una perturbación.;
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JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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