This time may not be that different: labor markets, the Great Recession and the (not so great) recovery

The last three U.S. recessions have been followed by “jobless recoveries.” The lack of robust job growth once GDP starts to pick up has a lot people asking if labor markets have changed in some fundamental way. I look at employment and unemployment growth in every recession since the 1950s and find that the current levels of these indicators can be explained by the severity of the Great Recession and the slow growth of GDP in the recovery.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Tasci, Murat
Published in:	Economic Commentary. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. - 2011, Sept, 18
Publisher:	Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Subject:	Recessions \| Economic conditions \| Labor contract \| Labor market

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Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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