As noted above, cyclical and structural unemployment can be hard to sort out. One way around this is to find a group of workers who should do well if the problem is structural, and see how they ...

Every week, the Department of Labor issues data detailing the number of people who filed for unemployment benefits in the previous week. According to Thursday's report, 385,000 people filed last ...

Unemployment can be voluntary, like when you leave one job for a higher-paying one, or it can be involuntary, when you're ...

Mario Draghi speaks about Eurozone unemployment at Jackson Hole (Part 5 of 11) (Continued from Part 4) Cyclical factors As of 2013, the long-term unemployed’s—those unemployed for a year or ...