The Great Recession and the Labor Market

We review the main labor market trends during the Great Recession, the ways in which those trends have been organized into narratives about the Great Recession, the effects of the Great Recession on individual-level behaviors and decisions, the causes of the key labor market dysfunctions of the Great Recession, and the most important economic and noneconomic forces that are likely to generate recessions and other labor market problems in the future.

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Author: 

Beth Red Bird,
David B. Grusky
Publisher: 
Annual Review of Sociology
Publication Date: 
July 2016