record rise in long-term unemployment may yield a persistent residue of long-term unemployed workers with weak search …From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the recession that began in 2007 represents the deepest … effectiveness. Second, conventional estimates suggest that the extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation may have led to a …

record rise in long-term unemployment may yield a persistent residue of long-term unemployed workers with weak search …From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the recession that began in 2007 represents the deepest … effectiveness. Second, conventional estimates suggest that the extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation may have led to a …

Women fared decidedly better than men during the most recent recession. By August 2009, the unemployment rate for men … had hit 11.0 percent, while that for women held at 8.3 percent. This 2.7 percentage point unemployment gender gap - the …