Nonlinear Co-Integration Between Unemployment and Economic Growth in South Africa
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unemployment; economic growth; Okun’s law; South Africa; MTAR model; nonlinear unit root tests; nonlinear co-integration; nonlinear Granger tests; Hodrick-Prescott filter; Baxter-King filter; Butterworth high-pass filter;All these keywords.
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- C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
- C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
- E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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