This broad survey of unemployment will be a major source of reference for both scholars and students.
The constructed series are highly correlated with the Bureau of Labor Statics' state-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle.
Combatting Unemployment: Is Flexibility Enough?
This is modeled by application of the concept of the hazard rate which denotes the conditional exit rate from unemployment over time given elapsed unemployment duration.
In The Great Recession, David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, Christopher Wimer, eds. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 249–293. Card, David, and Craig Riddell. 1993. “A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in Canada and the United ...
Employment-unemployment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United...
Originally published in 1991 this book provides a multi-faceted analysis of German unemployment between 1873 and 1913.
A history of debates concerning the impact of technology on employment, and a description of the techniques used by economists in establishing a consensus opinion.
The book describes the ingenious, yet quite costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance.
Although the economy has begun growing again, it may be a while before the unemployment rate shows steady improvement.