On the structure of US unemployment disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender

Hervé Queneau and Amit Sen

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 1, 91-95

Abstract: We present empirical evidence regarding the structure of unemployment in the US disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender. Popp’s (2008) unit-root test reveals that the dynamics of unemployment for all groups is characterized by the hysteresis hypothesis except for Hispanic Males.

Keywords: Unemployment rate; Persistence; Unit root; Gender; Race; Ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.065

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