measures of long-term hardship by race and gender, education, and age. In addition to the conventional long-term unemployment … Bureau of Labor Statistic’s “U-6” alternative unemployment rate, which adds “discouraged” workers, the “marginally attached …,” and workers who are “part-time for economic reasons” to the official unemployment rate. …

The official concept of “long-term unemployment,” while useful, is incomplete and, in some cases, even potentially …-term unemployment in two ways. First, we encourage shifting from a narrow focus on long-term unemployment toward a broader concept of …-term unemployment – including “discouraged” and “marginally attached” workers and those involuntarily working part-time jobs – face long …

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

job loss and raise the national unemployment rate. However, this issue brief shows that the experience of 22 countries … is no statistically significant relationship between national unemployment rates and legally-mandated access to paid sick …

From the early 1990s through the peak of the last business cycle, relatively low U.S. unemployment rates seemed to make … (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other international organizations all praised the U.S. unemployment … shows that in the current economic crisis, the U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries. …

The Great Recession has left tens of millions of families facing unemployment, underemployment and the threat of losing …