This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative …

The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …

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 …

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 …