Accounting for Discouraged Workers in the Unemployment Rate

B Ravikumar and Lin Shao

Economic Synopses, 2014, issue 9, No 2

Abstract: We construct a new measure of the unemployment rate based on a plausible assumption that some, but not all, of the discouraged workers reenter the labor force.

Date: 2014
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