Granger Causal Nexus between Good Public Governance and Unemployment: Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data Investigation

Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Paula-Ramona Răchişan¹  SorinRomulus Berinde¹  Cristina Boţa-Avram²  Adrian Groşanu² 

[1] Faculty of Business, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400174 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;

关键词: country-level governance;    unemployment as % of the total labour force;    Granger non-causality test;    vector error correction model;    sustainable economic development;   

DOI  :  10.3390/jrfm14020063

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causality between good public governance captured through six World Bank governance indicators and unemployment rate (unemployment as % of the total labour force) as a clear indicator of labour market performance. Although some previous papers have empirically demonstrated the casual nexus between country-level governance and economic development, this study investigates the relation of causality between public governance and the labour market. By employing Granger non-causality tests, we tested two hypotheses with regard to this nexus. We argue that bidirectional Granger causality is predominant for the relation of country-level governance and unemployment. Finally, our paper offers a complex quantitative analysis of the causal nexus between public governance quality and one of the most known labour market activity indicators for an extended panel dataset of countries worldwide for 10 years.

【 授权许可】

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