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Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleStrong Dependence at the Long Run and the Cyclical Frequencies in the Specification of the US Unemployment RateL. A. Gil-AlanaThis study deals with the presence of long range dependence at the long run and the cyclical frequencies in the specification of the US unemployment rate. We use a parametric procedure that permits us to test unit and fractional roots in raw time series. The results show that both the long run and the cyclical structures present a component of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2005 · 6,501 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEconomic Growth and Unemployment: An Empirical AnalysisFuad M. KreishanProblem statement: This research investigates the relationship between unemployment and economic growth in Jordan through the implementation of Okun’s law. Approach: Using annual data covering the period 1970-2008, time series techniques are used to test the relation between unemployment and economic growth and to obtain estimates for Okun’s coefficient. Namely, the study used Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) for unit root, cointegration … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 21 Mar 2011 · 12,609 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDoes Monetary Policy Stimulates Macroeconomic Performance during Economic Downturn in Nigeria?Bashir Adelowo Wahab, Sam-Siso Ebasi OkrinyaThis study investigated the relationship between monetary policy and macroeconomic performance in Nigeria during 1981-2018. The stochastic properties of the time series data were examined using both conventional and unit root tests with structural breaks to account for shift dummy in the series. Their results indicates that the series are combination of both I(0) and I(1) in the same specification … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 16, Issue 1 · 11 Feb 2020 · 8,269 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA VAR Model for Forecasting Land Market Value in USALei WangForecasts of the future tendency of economic variables such as GDP, inflation rate and unemployment rate, arise many interests from business and government. Also, Modeling the land market at the national level can capture rich dynamic presenting in interdependent economies. In this paper, we studied a Vector Auto-regression (VAR) of Land Market Value and five US macroeconomic variables. We employed … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 1 Jan 2018 · 7,639 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPrediction on Land Market Value Based on the Real Estate Market in USALei WangThe Land Market Value, defined as the total value of land price and quantity data are derived from data on housing values, is an important factor in the estimation of structure costs using price indexes for housing and construction costs. In this study, we gather and analyze 34 years' national data on past and present real estate transaction. According to … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 13, Issue 2 · 23 May 2017 · 7,555 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRoles of Macroeconomic Variables on Agricultural Diversification in NigeriaSunday B. Akpan, Samuel J. Udoka, Inimfon V. PatrickThe study examined the trend in agricultural diversification index from 1960 to 2014 in Nigeria. It also determined the influence of some macroeconomic variables on the estimated index. Augmented Dickey-Fuller-GLS unit root test showed that all series were integrated of order one. The long-run and short-run elasticity of the agricultural diversification index with respect to the specified macro-economic variables were … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 9 Jul 2015 · 7,491 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractShort-Run Employment Functions in Manufacturing IndustriesMd. Azizul Baten, Monsur Ahmed Chowdhury, Anton Abdulbasah Kamil, Rumana MomtazProblem statement: Increasing growth of population and shortage of producing capacity in Bangladesh have caused serious unemployment crisis and has forced the authorities to look for ways to reduce unemployment rate. Due to difference of structure and technology used in economic sectors and activities, the effects of factors on employment are different. So, for the purpose of findings alternatives to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,442 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Private Sector's Role in limiting unemployment in JordanKhaled M.M.Abu AliqahThis study is aimed to define unemployment, and private sector, to know more about both, and to study the role of the private sector in limiting unemployment in Jordan in special. In a particular year the level of unemployment is determined by the level of aggregate demand for the goods and services which a country produces .if demand higher this … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2008 · 7,203 accessesView PDF Cite