Add to ORKG[Excerpt] A general slowdown in economic activity, a downturn in the business cycle, a reduction in the amount of goods and services produced and sold—these are all characteristics of a recession. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (the official arbiter of U.S. recessions), there were 10 recessions between 1948 and 2011. The most recent recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, though many of the statistics that describe the U.S. economy have yet to return to their pre-recession values. In this Spotlight, we present BLS data that compare the recent recession to previous recessions
[Excerpt] After the long economic expansion that characterized much of the current decade, the natio...
This report updates NELP's previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the ...
The negative outcomes of the Great Recession have been multifaceted, affecting many areas of family ...
[Excerpt] The period since 2007 has been a time of significant change for labor markets. The Great R...
It’s official. Last month the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the non-government think ...
[Excerpt] A major factor that contributed to the growth of the U.S. labor force in the second half o...
[Excerpt] This Spotlight on Statistics looks at consumer expenditures on household items, employment...
[Excerpt] Despite the resumption of economic (output) growth in June 2009, the unemployment rate rem...
[Excerpt] Following the official end of the 2001 recession in November 2001, unemployment continued ...
[Excerpt] According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the U.S. economy entered a r...
In the span of just six quarters between 2007 and 2009, nonfarm business output declined by $753 bil...
[Excerpt] Congress in recent years passed a number of bills intended in part to jump-start a recover...
Okun’s law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used t...
MODERN RECESSIONS HIT THE U.S. economy in 1990–91 and in 2001. A modern recession is one occurring i...
This article assesses the significance of the January 2009 US unemployment figures. The steep fall ...
[Excerpt] After the long economic expansion that characterized much of the current decade, the natio...
This report updates NELP's previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the ...
The negative outcomes of the Great Recession have been multifaceted, affecting many areas of family ...
[Excerpt] The period since 2007 has been a time of significant change for labor markets. The Great R...
It’s official. Last month the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the non-government think ...
[Excerpt] A major factor that contributed to the growth of the U.S. labor force in the second half o...
[Excerpt] This Spotlight on Statistics looks at consumer expenditures on household items, employment...
[Excerpt] Despite the resumption of economic (output) growth in June 2009, the unemployment rate rem...
[Excerpt] Following the official end of the 2001 recession in November 2001, unemployment continued ...
[Excerpt] According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the U.S. economy entered a r...
In the span of just six quarters between 2007 and 2009, nonfarm business output declined by $753 bil...
[Excerpt] Congress in recent years passed a number of bills intended in part to jump-start a recover...
Okun’s law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used t...
MODERN RECESSIONS HIT THE U.S. economy in 1990–91 and in 2001. A modern recession is one occurring i...
This article assesses the significance of the January 2009 US unemployment figures. The steep fall ...
[Excerpt] After the long economic expansion that characterized much of the current decade, the natio...
This report updates NELP's previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the ...
The negative outcomes of the Great Recession have been multifaceted, affecting many areas of family ...