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New Evidence on Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment
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Chen, Jinzhu | Kannan, Prakash | Loungani, Prakash | Trehan, Bharat |
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May 1, 2011 |
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Summary: 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 Recession of 2007-09. About 75% of the forecast error variance of unemployment is accounted for by cyclical factors-real GDP changes (?Okun‘s Law?), monetary and fiscal policies, and the uncertainty effects emphasized by Bloom (2009). Structural factors, which we measure using the dispersion of industry-level stock returns, account for the remaining 25 percent. For U.S. long-term unemployment the split between cyclical and structural factors is closer to 60-40, including during the Great Recession.
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Working Paper No. 11/106 |
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Business cycles | Cross country analysis | Economic recession | External shocks | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | Unemployment | United States |
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unemployment; structural unemployment; stock markets; uncertainty
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