Are Initial Jobless Claims a Useful Gauge of Labor Market Conditions?

Michael McCracken and Trần Khánh Ngân

On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: For business economists, crossing 400,000 initial jobless claims can signal a reversal in labor market conditions. Is this threshold still useful?

Keywords: initial jobless claims; labor market conditions; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-01-14
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/jan ... or-market-conditions Full text (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:l00001:99449

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Scott St. Louis ().