unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States. -- Business …

The deep recession that began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, has had a lasting effect on the labor market …. More than four and a half years after the end of the recession, employment has risen sluggishly--much more slowly than it … grew, on average, during the four previous recoveries that lasted more than one year. At the same time, the unemployment …