In this paper, we investigate the incidence of unemployment among the seven northeastern states of India and compared it with all India figures. This is based on household level data on employment and unemployment collected by the NSSO for the year 1993-94. The level of unemployment has been...

This paper presents a forecasting model of unemployment based on labor force ows data that, in real time, dramatically outperforms the Survey of Professional Forecasters, historical forecasts from the Federal Reserve Board's Greenbook, and basic time-series models. Our model's forecast has a...