the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are … implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 6th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

modest increase in unemployment. Despite these forces, we conclude that the problems facing the U.S. labor market are …From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the recession that began in 2007 represents the deepest … downturn in the postwar era. Early on, the nature of labor market adjustment displayed a notable resemblance to that observed …

The aggregate neoclassical growth model - with a labor income tax or "labor market distortion" that began growing at … the end of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real …, but merely because labor is falling and labor is complementary with capital in the production function. Through the lens …

poor labor market to a better labor market. We find that modifications raise the unemployment rate by about 0.5 percentage …This paper documents the abnormally slow recovery in the labor market during the Great Recession, and analyzes how … individuals losing skills as unemployment duration is longer …

This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United … States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a … major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to … live up to expectations. The level and duration of unemployment increased substantially in the downturn and the growth of …