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Cain, Glen G. – Monthly Labor Review, 1979
The author argues that one answer to the criticism that the variation in demographic composition of the labor force leads to misinterpretations of unemployment statistics is to display the time series of unemployment rates for various demographic groups. (BM)
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Computation, Demography, Economic Change