@article{Shannon:243980,
      recid = {243980},
      author = {Shannon, Mike and Moazzami, Bakhtiar},
      title = {Canadian Regional NAIRU Estimates: A Structural Break  Approach},
      journal = {Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1100-2016-90145},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {This paper applies the Bai-Perron method to identify  longer-run structural breaks in Canadian regional  unemployment rate series in order to estimate natural rates  of unemploy-ment for Canada and its regions. The longest  samples (Canada, Quebec, Ontario, British Co-lumbia, the  Maritimes, and the Prairie region) span the 1946-2011  period while the shortest samples, covering smaller  provinces, are for 1966-2011. In all cases the technique  reveals sig-nificant breaks. On the longer series a jump  upward of 1.6%-3.2% is found in the mid-1950s. A second,  and larger, increase occurs in the mid-1970s in all but the  two western-most prov-inces and the Prairie region. Further  increases are seen in the early 1980s in all provinces west  of Ontario as well as in the Maritime region and Nova  Scotia. Declines in natural rate esti-mates are found for  several provinces and Canada as a whole in the mid-to-late  1990s.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/243980},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.243980},
}