The role of aggregate cost stickiness in unemployment rate prediction

Subject Areas : Economic and Financial Time Series

Naser Riyahinasab ¹ , Babak Jamshidinavid ² , Alireza Moradi ³ , Mehrdad Ghanbari ⁴

1 - Department of Accounting, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.
2 - Department of Accounting, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.
3 - Department of Economics, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.
4 - Department of Accounting, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.

Received: 2020-01-19 Accepted : 2020-06-22 Published : 2022-01-01

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