…greater technological advances incorporating more artificial intelligence which will sideline even more labor. [Eight] years of [S]tructural Unemployment is not a normal event. There is something radically wrong when Unemployment…

Casey Mulligan would very much like you to believe it does. “cutting unemployment insurance would increase employment, as it would end payments for people who fail to find work and…

…figures. All other unemployment rates, except for the UK, are current as of May 2010.) Germany, France, and Italy: Germany’s labor market is ostensibly improving, as the unemployment rate continues…

Martin Ford points us to an ongoing concern as our economy changes: Structural Unemployment and Technology Previously, I’ve argued here that job automation technology might someday advance to the point…

…a start to the conversation. Could Advancing Job Automation Technology Cause Structural Unemployment? The unemployment situation is looking increasingly dismal. Is it possible that there’s something going on that no…

Paul Krugman argued that optimal fiscal policy in a liquidity trap targets unemployment equal to the non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). He uses a model with Ricardian equivalence….

…(long run) rate of unemployment may be shifting (they do this by showing that the Beveridge curve, which plots the the job vacancy rate against the unemployment rate, is shifting…

…been in the Rose Garden giving it air time. He should have declared that jobs have continued to grow big time while the unemployment rate has fallen – all the…

…October 2002 that this ratio has exceeded 62.5%, the unemployment rate did not fall. The following graph shows why I have argued that the unemployment rate can be a misleading…

July 31 saw the latest release of European Union unemployment numbers, and Monday’s gross domestic product figures brought no joy, especially for Greece. As Think Progress reports, Greek unemployment hit…