…unemployment sensitive programs (such as unemployment compensation and food stamps) are higher; the deficit is larger (or the surplus is smaller) than would be the case if the unemployment rate…

…jobs per month are required to keep unemployment under control. The reason? Labor-force participation has declined somewhat as more students remain in school, more workers take early retirement, and more…

…is roughly +/- 300,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it’s about +/- 0.2 percentage points. This means that when BLS reports that the unemployment rate for…

…week has gone by without a story about a jobless record somewhere in europe; and lately, the most outraged headlines have been about youth unemployment in the periphery…here’s a chart…

Jared Bernstein is saying that the unemployment rate is actually higher than 6.7%… “Based on numbers I’ve written about in greater detail, I think a more representative rate would be…

…Is the unemployment rate higher in Germany, Canada, Australia and Taiwan because their healthcare insurance systems aren’t based on full-time employment by a company that provides it to its full-time…

…Unemployment in Macroeconomics.” Review of Political Economy, 22: 2, pp. 263-279. Carl Shapiro and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1984) “Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device.” The American Economic Review, 74:…

Via Economist’s View comes this note on ‘Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession’ From the NBER Digest: The authors find very little interaction between UI benefit eligibility…

Unemployment dropped to 6.1% in June and down to 6.2% for the 2nd quarter. Unemployment is dropping faster than many economists expected. I would explain the fast drop as a…

…this especially true for rich nations ? Notice he argues for “longer-term and higher unemployment benefits” but not for introducing unemployment benefits where they are now zero. I really honestly…