It's all the miners' fault: On the nonlinearity in U.S. unemployment rates |
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Authors: | Gawon Yoon |
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Institution: | aSchool of Economics, Kookmin University, Seoul, 136-702, South Korea |
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Abstract: | The U.S. unemployment rate is generally regarded as nonlinear. In this study, we show that if there had been no miners' general strike in October of 1949, and if the aggregate unemployment rate had been 0.3% lower during that month, the 1948–2002 U.S. unemployment rate would have been linear. Hence, just a single alteration of past events would have resulted in significantly different findings regarding the linearity in the U.S. unemployment rate. This finding illustrates a need for linearity tests to be developed that are robust against the effects of outliers. |
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Keywords: | (Non)linearity Unemployment rate Outliers Robustness |
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