期刊名称:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Regional Economist
出版年度:2014
出版社:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
摘要:I n the period around the 2007-09 recession, the unemployment rate reached its peak at 10 percent in October 2009. In April 2014, the rate was 6.3 percent, suggest ing t hat the U.S. economy cont inues to recover from the Great Recession. Alt hough t he unemploy- ment rate seen in headlines is one of the most-cited indicators of the health of t he labor market, economist s and policymakers also examine alternative measures of labor underutilization