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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