Labor-Force Participation Rates and the Informational Value of Unemployment Rates: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data

The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned be-cause of a unit root in the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in jobless-ness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment rates for sub-populations, such as prime-aged males.

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Year of publication:	2010-09
Authors:	Gustavsson, Magnus ; Österholm, Pär
Institutions:	Konjunkturinstitutet, Government of Sweden
Subject:	Unit-root test

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series Working Paper Number 120 18 pages
Classification:	C22 - Time-Series Models ; E24 - Employment; Unemployment; Wages ; J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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