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July, 1987, Vol. 110, No. 7

Time spent unemployed:
a new look at data from the CPS

Michael W. Horrigan
Economist, Division of Labor Force Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics


A comparison of methods using data from the Current Population Survey shows that combined cross-sectional data provide robust, cyclically sensitive estimates of unemployment duration.

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