Testing the hysteresis effect in the US state-level unemployment series

This paper re-examines the stochastic time series behaviour of the monthly unemployment rate in 50 states of the United States (US) for the period 1976–2017 using a number of state-of-the-art unit root tests. The new developments incorporate structural break, nonlinearity, asymmetry, and cross-secti...

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Main Authors: Tolga Omay, Burcu Ozcan, Muhammed Shahbaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Economics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2020.1759865