The Labor Market in the Great Recession—An Update to September 2011 [with Comment and Discussion]

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only 1 percentage point from its peak by September 2011. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems att...

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Volume:	2011
Main Author:	MICHAEL W. L. ELSBY BART HOBIJN AYŞEGÜL ŞAHİN ROBERT G. VALLETTA BETSEY STEVENSON ANDREW LANGAN
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	WASHINGTON Brookings Institution 01.10.2011 Brookings Institution Press BROOKINGS INST PRESS
published in:	Brookings papers on economic activity Vol. 2011; no. 2; pp. 353 - 384
Data of publication:	20111001
ISSN:	0007-2303 1533-4465 1533-4465
EISSN:	1533-4465
Discipline:	Economics Statistics
Subjects:	Unemployment rates Employment Long term unemployment Economic recovery Working women Men Labor markets Workforce Unemployment Economic recessions Recessions Labor market 1972 United States Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Şahin, Ayşegül History Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Forecasts and trends Statistics United States UNEMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2011 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile Database information Databases - DBIS