Measuring Unemployment

It Took Six Major Depressions and a Lot of Out-of-Work Americans to Create a National Unemployment Count: What the Monthly Reports Measure, What They Miss, and How They Were Established Stricker, Zocalo 9/20

Unemployed, and Skewing the Picture, Leonhardt, NYT, 3/08 the first director, BLS and measurement

How the BLS Measures Unemployment

Employment Statistics: Let’s Tell the Whole Story

Who are the Unemployed? [quiz]

The fuzzy line between “unemployed” and “not in the labor force” and what it means for job creation strategies and the Federal Reserve, Bivens, EPI 3/18

The Problem with Blaming Men for Not Working: A Comparison of Labor Market Outcomes for Men and Women, Dew, CEPR 11/17

Where have all the workers gone? An inquiry into the decline of the U.S. labor force participation rate, Krueger, Brookings 9/17

Where Did All the Men Go? Eberstadt, Milken, 4/17

How Employed Are We? Henwood, 4/17

The Trouble With Surveys: A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate, Leonhardt, NYT 8/14

What is Full Employment?

Survey of Full Employment Advocates [on definition, desirability and achievability]

The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up? Krueger et al, Princeton 8/14

Household vs. Firm Unemployment Data

The Labor Force Participation Rate and Its Trajectory–Why It Matters

Is the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate During This Recession Permanent?

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?graph_id=470943#0

Why Are Men of Prime Age Missing from the Labor Force?

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