Unemployment has many types, causes, and specific features. While the pandemic and its aftermath created considerable economic shifts, unemployment has always ebbed and flowed for several reasons.

Discover how the Great Recession caused shifts in structural unemployment, transforming job markets and leaving lasting economic impacts beyond cyclical trends.

The unemployment rate is widely used to assess the state of the economy because it varies strongly with the business cycle, rising when the economy is in a recession and gradually decreasing during ...

Inflation and unemployment rate were largely disconnected between 2000 and 2019 in advanced economies. We decompose core inflation into two parts based on the cyclical sensitivity of CPI components ...

We provide cross-country evidence on the relative importance of cyclical and structural factors in explaining unemployment, including the sharp rise in U.S. long-term unemployment during the Great ...