American workers in unions continues to fall, but unionization rates for African-Americans have declined more sharply than for …

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 …

period of high unemployment, when it is reasonable to expect the beneficial effects of volunteering to be especially …

Following the most recent recession, an attempt has been made to explain current levels of unemployment as resulting … from structural unemployment, or a mismatch between the skills of the unemployed and the types of jobs available. The … other will lead to very different policy solutions, it is important to accurately assess the cause of unemployment. This …

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 …

, shows that the share of American workers in unions continues to fall, but unionization rates for African-Americans have …