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

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Chris Ryan / Getty Images Frictional and structural unemployment are two ...

Is there really an economic consensus that unemployment is cyclical, as Paul Krugman suggests? Photo courtesy of Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. But when he wrote on his blog on Aug. 3 that “[t]he PBS ...

An increase in U.S. aggregate labor demand reflected in rising job vacancies has not been accompanied by a similar decline in the unemployment rate. Some analysts maintain that unemployed workers lack ...

Unemployment has many shapes, forms, and causes. The pandemic and its aftermath created macroeconomic shifts in the job market. While some had more opportunities for work than before, the U.S., at ...