Trend in Long-Term Unemployment and Characteristics of Workers Unemployed for More than 99 Weeks

摘要

;Contents: Issues for Congress; Overview of Data and Methodology; The Trend in Long-Term Unemployment (Reliability of Estimates of the Very Long-Term Unemployed, Will the Number of the Very Long-Term Unemployed Rise or Fall, Layoffs, Job Openings and Employment, Hiring the Very Long-Term Unemployed); Characteristics of the Very Long-Term Unemployed (Gender, Age, Education, Marital Status, Race and Hispanic Origin, Citizenship, Industry, Occupation); Conclusion; Policy Responses.