This paper considers the question of whether changes in persistence have occurred during the long-run evolution of U … for a structural break when testing for a break in persistence, thus disentangling the effect of a deterministic break … from that of a stochastic break and advancing the existing literature on the persistence properties of non …

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries … longmemory processes respectively. The evidence suggests that persistence is particularly high in Japan and some EU countries …

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis … empirical results show a moderate level of profit persistence, as well as a relatively low speed of adjustment to the steady …-state profit level, thus providing no support for the hypothesis that there is a lower persistence of profits in emerging markets …