Prague Economic Papers 2017, 26(5):578-601 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.633

Evidence of Asymmetries and Nonlinearity of Unemployment and Labour Force Participation Rate in Ukraine

Iryna Lukianenko1, Marianna Oliskevych2
1 Department of Finance, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine (luk@kse.org.ua)
2 Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine (olisk@ukr.net)

With respect to instability and structural changes for maintaining effective functioning of economy an important issue is to study the dynamics of processes in the labour market, including labour supply and employment. Considering negative demographic trends and an acute problem of population aging in Ukraine the article presents an empirical research of the dynamics of labour force participation and unemployment rate, as well as the correlation relationship between them in various periods of time. On the basis of threshold-disturbance moving average and threshold-disturbance autoregressive models there are elicited significant asymmetric reactions of labour force participation rate, unemployment rate and productivity to positive and negative macroeconomic shocks. For modelling the asymmetric behaviour of economic activity of population there is developed a nonlinear logistic smooth transition autoregressive model. In the result of econometric analysis there is received large estimated value of slope parameter which characterizes the smoothness of transition. This indicates that the economic activity of the population in Ukraine quickly reacts to the previous changes that took place in the labour market. In times of crisis Ukrainian households increase labour supply and show increased activity in job search in order to prevent the decline of their income.

Keywords: labour market, unemployment, labour force participation rate, asymmetry, LSTAR model, Ukraine
JEL classification: C30, E24

Published: October 1, 2017  Show citation

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