Discussion Paper
Conclusion: How Low Will the Unemployment Rate Go?
Abstract: A major theme of the posts in our labor market series has been that the outflows from unemployment, either into employment or out of the labor force, have been the primary determinant of unemployment rate dynamics in long expansions. The key to the importance of outflows is that within long expansions there have not been adverse shocks that lead to a burst of job losses. To illustrate the power of this mechanism, we presented simulations in a previous post that were based on the movements in the outflow and inflow rates in the previous three expansions. These simulated paths show the unemployment rate declining to a level well below current consensus predictions over the medium term.
Keywords: job-finding rates; labor force participation; labor market exit rate; labor market entry; employment to population ratio; job loss; Unemployment rate; labor flows;
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Bibliographic Information
Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Part of Series: Liberty Street Economics
Publication Date: 2012-04-02
Number: 20120402