Endogeneity in Structural Unemployment Equations The Case of Canada

This paper examines the endogeneity of several structural variables which enter unemployment rate equations—the generosity of unemployment benefits, nonwage labor costs, the relative minimum wage, and the degree of unionization. It finds evidence of reverse causality for these structural variables b...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1993
Series:IMF Working Papers
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653 |a Policy Designs and Consistency 
653 |a Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search 
653 |a Employment 
653 |a Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General 
653 |a Labor 
653 |a Labor unions 
653 |a Aggregate Human Capital 
653 |a Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General 
653 |a Policy Coordination 
653 |a Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits 
653 |a Private Pensions 
653 |a Severance Pay 
653 |a Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy 
653 |a Aggregate Labor Productivity 
653 |a Intergenerational Income Distribution 
653 |a Unemployment rate 
653 |a Labour 
653 |a Unemployment 
653 |a Labor costs 
653 |a Plant Closings 
653 |a Trade unions 
653 |a Unemployment Insurance 
653 |a Income economics 
653 |a Policy Objectives 
653 |a Minimum wage 
653 |a Wages 
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520 |a This paper examines the endogeneity of several structural variables which enter unemployment rate equations—the generosity of unemployment benefits, nonwage labor costs, the relative minimum wage, and the degree of unionization. It finds evidence of reverse causality for these structural variables based on causality tests. The structural unemployment rate equation is then estimated using instruments suggested by the empirical analysis of the structural variables. The paper confirms the earlier finding that the generosity of unemployment benefits, nonwage labor costs, and the relative minimum wage have a significant positive impact on the unemployment rate, but fails to find an effect for the degree of unionization