Long-Term Unemployment and Recessions

Mayer, Gerald ; Levine, Linda

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Business cycles;    Economic policy;    Labor;    Unemployment;   

RP-ID  :  R41179
RP-ID  :  R41179_2010Apr14

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report analyzes the trend in long-term unemployment over the postwar period and offers explanations for its unusually high incidence during the most recent recession. It compares the individual, job, and household characteristics of the long-term unemployed during the latest recession (2007-2009) with the long-term unemployed at the end of the two previous recessions (1990-1991 and 2001).