On the Dynamics of Unemployment in a Developing Economy: Colombia

Número: 
208
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C32, J31, J64
Palabras clave: 
Unemployment, wage disequilibrium, Cointegration, non-linearities

This paper estimates an asymmetric error correction model to analyse the dynamic behaviour of the Colombian unemployment rate. We find evidence that wages above their long-run equilibrium level do increase unemployment, but wages below this level do not r