have greater effects in reducing local unemployment rates if the local economy is initially depressed than if the local … economy is booming. Demand shocks have greater effects on local wage rates if the local unemployment rate is initially low …

This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such …