U.S. Unemployment Rate

A U.S. Unemployment Rate is an regional unemployment rate within the U.S. labor market (or U.S. unemployed population relative to U.S. worker population).

• Context:
  • It can be composed of a U.S. Structural Unemployment Rate and a U.S. Cyclical Unemployment Rate.
  • It can (typically) be smaller than a U.S. Underemployment Rate.
  • It can (typically) be correlated to a U.S. Unemployment Benefit Claim Rate.
  • It can contain a U.S. Long-Term Unemployment Rate.
• Example(s):
  • a 2011_U.S. Unemployment Rate.
  • a January 2013 Seasonally Adjusted U.S. Unemployment Rate for Civilians with Less than a High School Diploma. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Global Unemployment Rate, or Canada Unemployment Rate, or a China Unemployment Rate, or California Unemployment Rate.
  • a U.S. Labor Participation Rate.
  • a U.S. Labor Productivity Measure.
• See: The Great Recession, U.S. Social Welfare Program.

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References

• http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&ifdim=country&dl=en&ind=false&q=us+unemployment+rate
• http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
• http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat01.htm
• http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
• https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE
  

2010

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/US_Unemployment_1890-2009.gif

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