dissatisfaction reflects poor economic conditions; unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western …. Finally, while effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of inflation is …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …