This paper uses data on unemployment rates and job vacancy rates to measure structural/frictional and demand …-deficient components of unemployment rate differences across local labor markets. Data on occupational and industrial distributions of … unemployed workers and vacant jobs, as well as on local wages, recent sales growth, Unemployment Insurance, and demographics are …

grew, on average, during the four previous recoveries that lasted more than one year. At the same time, the unemployment … and structural unemployment as they respond to different policy measures …