Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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 …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rate … substantially underestimates the true level of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in the labor force status in the … Current Population Survey. During the period from January 1996 to August 2011, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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 …

and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data. It argues that there is convincing evidence that the young are … particularly susceptible to the negative effects of spells of unemployment well after their initial experience of worklessness …. Because the current youth cohort is relatively large, the longer-term outlook for youth unemployment is quite good, but there …