This essay considers that more-productive workers are less likely to be unemployed or leave the labor force.
The FRED quarterly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-QD) now includes the November 2015 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is a companion to the monthly database (FRED-MD) that is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working … Continue reading
FRED has just added 2 non-employment indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. These indicators are alternative measures of the unemployment rate reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
See the latest issue of Review for some historical detective work on the politics and economics behind Missouri’s two Federal Reserve Banks.
Listen in on a collection of oral histories recorded by Richmond Fed economist Robert Hetzel. Hear from former Fed governors and bank presidents, members of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. Treasury officials, and others.
The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the December 2015 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena … Continue reading
