suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker …

Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

the unemployment rate - has become horizontal after 2008. Similarly, job-turnover rates have continued to decline. Job …

approach, the unemployment rate is on average 0.8 percentage points (ppts) higher than the official unemployment rate, with a …-cycle fluctuations in the unemployment rate from job separation, job finding, and participation. Correcting for misclassification changes … unemployment fluctuations, while participation accounts for fewer. The methodology I propose can be applied to any other labor …

with real economic outcomes during the financial crisis, including higher unemployment rates in local real sectors …

and complementedat the micro-economic level. Lower regional unemployment puts an upward pressure onwages of individuals …