Paper #1397
- Título:
- Declining labor force attachment and downward trends in unemployment and participation
- Autores:
- RĂ©gis Barnichon y Andrew Figura
- Data:
- Octubre 2013
- Resumen:
- The US labor market witnessed two apparently unrelated secular movements in the last 30 years: a decline in unemployment between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, and a decline in participation since the early 2000s. Using CPS micro data and a stock- flow accounting framework, we show that a substantial, and hitherto unnoticed, factor behind both trends is a decline in the share of nonparticipants who are at the margin of participation. A lower share of marginal nonparticipants implies a lower unemployment rate, because marginal nonparticipants enter the labor force mostly through unemployment, while other nonparticipants enter the labor force mostly through employment.
- Palabras clave:
- marginal participant, want a job, stock-flow decomposition.
- Códigos JEL:
- J6, E24.
- Área de investigación:
- Macroeconomía y Economía Internacional
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