accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor … force attachment searching for employment after being subject to a mass layoff - thereby focusing on a group of job …

. Using a new methodology to account for the increased separation rates across all survey responses during a mass layoff, the …

Large shocks to local labor markets can cause long-lasting changes to employment, unemployment and the local labor … layoff event. By measuring the residual difference between these channels and net labor force change, we also show that labor …

which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the …

-displacement earnings if displaced in mass-layoff events that occur when the national unemployment rate is below 6 percent. They lose a … staggering 2.8 years of pre-displacement earnings if displaced when the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent. These results … opportunities respond to contemporaneous economic conditions. Finally, we confront leading models of unemployment fluctuations with …

occupations and industries can explain a sizeable portion of the gender, race, and ethnic gaps in recent unemployment. However …