Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates


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Alberiko Gil-Alana L., ÖZDEMİR Z. A., Tansel A.

EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE, cilt.55, sa.1, ss.201-217, 2019 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 55 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/1540496x.2018.1425837
  • Dergi Adı: EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.201-217
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: fractional integration, hysteresis, NAIRU, Turkey, unemployment, C22, E24, MACROECONOMIC TIME-SERIES, UNIT-ROOT TESTS, FRACTIONAL-INTEGRATION, STRUCTURAL BREAKS, EXPONENTIAL MODEL, OECD UNEMPLOYMENT, PERSISTENCE, US, HYSTERESIS, TRENDS
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this article we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders of integration equal to or higher than 1 in the majority of the cases. This implies lack of mean reversion and persistence of the shocks. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of non-agricultural, rural, urban, and youth unemployment series. The possibility of nonlinearities are observed only in the case of female unemployment and the degree of persistence is higher in the cases of female and youth unemployment series. Important policy implications emerge from our empirical results. Thus, for example, positive shocks reducing unemployment will have permanent effects being good for the economy, but negative shocks increasing unemployment will also have permanent effects and strong measures should then be adopted to reduce it. Labor and macroeconomic policies will most likely have long-lasting effects on the unemployment rates.