Business cycles are the repetitive expansions and contractions of activity within economies. The unemployment level of an economy is the measurement of people who are looking for work but cannot ...

Cyclical unemployment relates to the irregular ups and downs, or cyclical trends in growth and production, as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP), that occur within the business cycle ...

The “business cycle” might just be one of the oldest ideas in economics. For more than 200 years, economists have been pointing to the tendency of economies to expand, then slow down, contract ...

The most desirable phase of a business cycle is expansion. In the broader economy, this phase marks steady growth in both production and profit, with a booming stock market and low unemployment.

Specifically, Black workers without a high school diploma are 2.5 times more sensitive to business cycle fluctuations than college-educated Black workers. Still, the unemployment rate for the ...

The smoothed jobless unemployment rate exhibits a predictable pattern throughout the business cycle, typically rising sharply in recessions and gradually declining during expansions. Figure 1 shows ...

Understanding these cycles can help you make strategic financial decisions. In an expansion phase, businesses thrive, and ...

There is a growing view that the U.S. business cycle has changed (for better) in a more diversified economy. To some, that sounds like tempting fate.

Subdued hiring and subdued firings is an odd limbo to be in. Typically, once unemployment ticks up from its low point during a cycle, it does not gently wiggle sideways near that level; it tends ...

An index designed to track turns in U.S. business cycles fell for the 15th straight month in June, dragged down by a weakening consumer outlook and increased unemployment claims, marking the ...

This note reviews the literature on the complex relationship between gender and business cycles. It focuses on nuanced patterns that challenge the notion of gender neutrality in economic fluctuations.