EA Magazine:
Essential reading selected by IEA Research Fellow Diego Zuluaga ? Where did the workers go? Investigating jobless recoveries
2 October 2017
Article by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
Whilst the U.S. unemployment rate has returned to pre-recession lows, there is concern among policymakers about other developments in the American labour market, notably the secular decline in the labour force participation rate since the turn of the millennium.
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‘Is modern technology responsible for jobless recoveries?’, Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, American Economic Review 107.5 (May): 168-73.
10.1257/aer.p20171100 / http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.p20171100