The inexorable recoveries of unemployment

Robert E. Hall and Marianna Kudlyak

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, vol. 131, issue C, 15-25

Abstract: Unemployment recoveries in the US have been inexorable. In the aftermath of a recession, unless another crisis intervenes, unemployment continues to glide down. Between 1948 and 2019, the annual reduction in the unemployment rate during cyclical recoveries was distributed around 0.1 log points per year. The economy seems to have an irresistible force toward restoring full employment. Occasionally, unemployment rises rapidly during an economic crisis, while most of the time, unemployment declines slowly and smoothly at a near-constant proportional rate. Similar properties hold for other measures of the US unemployment rate and for unemployment in emerging and advanced countries.

Keywords: Business cycle; Recovery; Unemployment; Recession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.06.003

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