In this paper we examine how business cycles affect labor market outcomes in the United States. We conduct a detailed analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we compare the cyclical sensitivity during the Great...

The effect of business cycles is not experienced equally by all workers and official statistics usually do not uncover the dramatic differences in the severity of the cyclical impacts for different groups. Yet, research on the relationship between business cycles and (un)employment or...

In this paper we examine how business cycles affect labor market outcomes in the United States. We conduct a detailed analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we compare the cyclical sensitivity during the Great...