Abstract
A novel procedure is applied to test for switches between hysteresis and the natural rate theory over more than a century of UK and USA unemployment data. For both the countries we see a period conforming to hysteresis starting in the early 1920s for the UK and 1930 for USA.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 74-76 |
Journal | Economics Letters |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |
Keywords
- unemployment
- Hysteresis
- unit root
- Dynamic Persistence
- persistence breaks