Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108698 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8819
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
quantile regression
unemployment
dynamic models
JEL: 
C23
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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