The Weak Jobs Recovery: Whatever Happened to 'the Great American Jobs Machine'?

16 Pages Posted: 23 Aug 2005

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Richard B. Freeman

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Studies; Harvard University; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)

William M. Rodgers

College of William and Mary

Abstract

A paper presented at the December 2004 conference "Labor Market Developments in the United States and Canada since 2000," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Canadian Consulate General in New York, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, and the New York Association for Business Economics.

Keywords: business cycle, recovery, fiscal policy, inequality, unemployment, employment, wages, the international economy

JEL Classification: E3, J3, E6

Suggested Citation

Freeman, Richard B. and Rodgers, William M., The Weak Jobs Recovery: Whatever Happened to 'the Great American Jobs Machine'?. Economic Policy Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, August 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=784607

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