Download This PaperA Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity
19 Pages Posted: 14 Feb 2015
Abstract
The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data for the United States (1980-2010), we suggest that it does.
Keywords: quantile regression, unemployment, dynamic models
JEL Classification: C23, J64
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Andini, Corrado and Andini, Corrado and Andini, Monica, A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity. IZA Discussion Paper No. 8819, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2564952 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2564952
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