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Accounting for Discouraged Workers in the Unemployment Rate


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.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: Economic Synopses

Publication Date: 2014

Issue: 9

Order Number: 2