Centurial evidence of breaks in the persistence of unemployment

Atanu Ghoshray; Michalis P. Stamatogiannis

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.012

Centurial evidence of breaks in the persistence of unemployment

Atanu Ghoshray, Michalis P. Stamatogiannis

Department of Economics

Newcastle University

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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
Pages (from-to)	74-76
Journal	Economics Letters
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.012
Publication status	Published - Apr 2015

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Keywords

unemployment
Hysteresis
unit root
Dynamic Persistence
persistence breaks

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Centurial evidence of breaks in the persistence of unemployment

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