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

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 101
Issue: 2
Pages: 113-115

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

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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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:101:y:2008:i:2:p:113-115
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25