This article shows that even in recent years there is a relatively robust, negative cross-state correlation between appropriate measures of unemployment and wage growth.Unemployment ; Wages

Daniel Aaronson

Daniel Sullivan

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Research Papers in Economics

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24We use the default tuning parameters in the Stata statistical procedure. (These control the rate at which outliers are downweighted.) See Stata Corporation

27The regional ECI data are not available before

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Unemployment and wage growth: recent cross-state evidence

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Unemployment and wage growth: recent cross-state evidence

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