…somewhat higher than the disappointing increase per the Payroll Survey, the employment-population ratio has flat lined at 62.8%. So why did the unemployment rate fall? Simple – because the labor…

…the overall unemployment rate – one can see why Jerry only provided averages and not the time series. It seems unemployment rates for both blacks and for whites fell during…

Bush apologists used to note that the current unemployment rate is near the average during the Clinton years, which forgets that unemployment fell during Clinton’s Administration and has increased under…

…Cobra equation is implying a natural rate of unemployment. The simplified Cobra equation is now… Measure of profitability in the aggregate = (x + y) – ax2y2 x = capital…

…to work effort and shirking as a misguided response by workers to the threat of unemployment to theorizing high wages as an incentive for work effort and unemployment as an…

by New Deal democrat The implications of the child care cost crush for median household income and “shadow unemployment” The other day I showed that there is compelling evidence that…

In May of 2015, I wrote about the relationship between Labor Share and Unemployment. The post basically said that lower labor share translated into a higher limit upon unemployment. Here…

…a new Unemployment System (Michigan Data Automated System or MiDAS) to help in detecting unemployment fraud. With the passage of Senate Bill 1008 by the Republican led House, $10 million…

…not resign ourselves to mass unemployment. Though technological unemployment can’t be shrugged off lightly, its optimal solution lies in combining expansionary macroeconomic programs (fiscal and monetary policies) with retraining policies…

The *rate* of new jobless claims, at all-time lows, forecasts even lower unemployment I thought I’d start out with something I haven’t looked at in awhile: initial jobless claims as…