Assessing the Health of the Labor Market: The Unemployment Rate vs. Other Indicators

Maximiliano Dvorkin

The Regional Economist, 2015, issue Jan

Abstract: A question often on people?s minds is whether the unemployment rate is capturing all the relevant information on the health of the labor market these days. Are any of the other standard indicators any better? What do indexes that measure labor market conditions tell us?

Date: 2015
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