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The Labor Market Today: Is Unemployment Cyclical or Structural?

  • 2:00 pm EDT
  • 1150 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 - American Enterprise Institute

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The American Enterprise Institute

America’s persistently high level of unemployment is one of the greatest challenges facing policymakers in the wake of the Great Recession.

Is this unemployment crisis a product of normal business cycle activity, or does it stem from a structural problem in the labor force?

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker took part in panel discussion with Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kevin Hassett of AEI. A video of the event is available below or after the jump.