Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegül; … - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2011
Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to...