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

This paper examines the degree of persistence in UK inflation by applying long-memory methods to historical data that … detect any shifts in the degree of persistence, and also run rolling-window and recursive regressions to investigate its … evolution over time. On the whole, the evidence suggests that the degree of persistence of UK inflation has been relatively …