Youth Unemployment in Europe: Persistence and Macroeconomic Determinants
20 Pages Posted: 16 Apr 2014
Date Written: March 15, 2014
Abstract
This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number of European countries. First, it explores its short and long memory properties by estimating both autoregressive and fractional integration models. This type of analysis sheds light on the degree of persistence of the series, and on whether policy actions are required for highly persistent series. Second, it investigates the main determinants of youth unemployment in Europe by estimating fractional cointegration models. The evidence suggests that this series is highly persistent in all the countries examined, and that in some of them there is a statistically significant long-run equilibrium relationship linking it to macroeconomic variables such as GDP and inflation.
Keywords: youth unemployment, fractional integration, fractional cointegration
JEL Classification: C220, C320, J640
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