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Is the FOMC’s unemployment rate threshold a good idea?
AbstractThe November 2012 unemployment rate would have been 1.6 percent higher had the labor force participation rate declined as it did following the 2001 recession.
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Daniel L. Thornton, "Is the FOMC’s unemployment rate threshold a good idea?"
, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Economic Synopses, number 1, 2013.
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Keywords: Unemployment ; Federal Open Market Committee
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