Monday, February 27, 2017
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By Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Economist, and Maria Arias, Senior Research Associate
As the U.S. economy has gotten stronger, labor markets across the country have improved substantially, albeit slowly, from the shocks they suffered during the Great Recession. Here, we highlight the unemployment rate dynamics in the U.S. and across Europe during and after the Great Recession and global financial crisis.