Thursday, August 28, 2014

A New Bias in the Unemployment Rate?

In the article http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/upshot/a-new-reason-to-question-the-official-unemployment-rate.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1, David Leonhardt reviews recent research that indicates that the unemployment rate has become increasingly inaccurate, because Americans are less willing than before to respond to surveys about their employment status. The reason and the solution both relate to technology, he asserts.

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