TY - RPRT AU - Andini, Corrado AU - Andini, Monica TI - A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity PY - 2015/Jan/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 8819 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8819 AB - The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data for the United States (1980-2010), we suggest that it does. KW - unemployment KW - quantile regression KW - dynamic models ER -