Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
start in almost every case, after that identified by GDP. But the GDP and labor market data are subject to major revisions …We examine the start date of the Great Recession across OECD countries based on two successive quarters of negative GDP … growth recession. For most OECD countries this establishes the start of recession in Q22008 or Q32008. We find that the Sahm …