We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by …. Hysteresis in EU unemployment is attributed to the idiosyncratic, but not to the common component. In contrast, idiosyncratic … components are stationary in the US. If hysteresis behaviour is also relevant here, it is more likely to arise in the common …

This paper applies the panel unit root test proposed by Im, Pesaran and Shin (1997) to test for unemployment hysteresis … in the US states and the EU countries against the alternative of a natural rate. The results show that hysteresis for the …