Chauvet, Marcelle; Juhn, Chinhui; Potter, Simon - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2001
.S. unemployment rates. We extract the common dynamics among unemployment rates disaggregated for seven age groups. The framework … allows analysis of the contribution of demographic factors to secular changes in unemployment rates. In addition, it allows … favor of the common factor and of the switching between high and low unemployment rate regimes. We also find that …