The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not define people as “unemployed” unless they are actively looking for work. In the bureau’s Employment Situation report for June, 5.4 million people did not ...
Stay-at-home orders issued to slow the spread of COVID-19 may have severely distorted labor market statistics, notably the official unemployment rate. A method to correct the survey biases associated ...
In this series of articles we try answer common questions about whether we can trust employment statistics, and go beyond the headline figures to assess the health of the labour market more ...