Wolff, Edward N. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 31 (2005) 4, pp. 507-536
With a given unemployment rate, duration of joblessness can vary substantially. The unemployment rate will be the same …, and demographic variables on changes in unemployment duration. The analysis is based on aggregate time-series data for the … US, covering the period from 1948 to 1997. The duration of unemployment has risen rather dramatically over the last half …