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Peer reviewedFlaim, Paul O. – Monthly Labor Review, 1979
This article estimates to what extent changes in the unemployment rate over the past two decades have reflected basic cyclical factors in the demand for labor and to what extent they may stem from noncyclical factors. (BM)
Descriptors: Age, Computation, Demography, Labor Force
Peer reviewedCain, 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
