Hassler, Uwe; Wolters, Jürgen - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 2-3, pp. 119-129
Summary In this paper we compare the unemployment dynamics of the US and Germany with monthly data up to 2008. With data from 1971 on the evidence is mixed when applying descriptive methods or formal unit root tests. When allowing for fractional integration, however, we find similar results to...