Gomes, Fábio Augusto Reis; Silva, Cleomar Gomes da - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 49 (2009) 2, pp. 308-322
The aim of this work is to analyze the regional unemployment rate behavior in Brazil. Firstly, unit root tests with structural breaks were used to determine which theoretical framework - hysteresis or NAIRU - is more appropriate to explain the unemployment dynamics not only in six Brazilian...