Okun's Law, Development, and Demographics : Differences in the Cyclical Sensitivities of Unemployment Across Economy and Worker Groups /

The negative and stable relationship between an economy's aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and economy groups. First, unemployment is more th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: An, Zidong
Other Authors: Bluedorn, John, Ciminelli, Gabriele
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/270
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