cohabitation has not prevented a rise in the proportion of lone parents, and their numbers are growing rapidly. The children of …The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in … lone parents are relatively deprived, both in terms of income and adults' time for child care and housekeeping. Government …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

needed to keep unemployment in check are too high. It is estimated that only 98,000 jobs (rather than the usual goal of 150 …

The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … concentrated among the unmarried and those without children. About half of men's decline can be explained by declines in wage rates …

The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in … the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are … highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment …

explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …