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Unemployment Rates for Men and Women

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FRED Graph

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Consider the graph plotting the unemployment rates for men and women between January 1948 and August 2024.

Q1. Between January 1948 and June 1980, whose unemployment rate was most frequently higher: men's or women's?

Q2. Between December 1983 and today, whose unemployment rate was most frequently higher: men's or women's?

Learn more about this topic here: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2020/11/the-covid-19-induced-she-cession/

Unemployment Levels by Educational Attainment

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FRED Graph

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Consider the graph plotting the unemployment rates for persons with different levels of educational attainment between January 1992 and August 2024.

Q1. Rank the levels of educational attainment from lowest to highest unemployment rate.

Q2. What type of correlation between the level of educational attainment and the likelihood of being unemployed can you observe in the data?

Learn more about this topic here: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2014/03/unemployment-rates-by-educational-attainment/

Unemployment Rate

4.2%
November 2024

Taylor rule - alternative unemployment gap

Name
Value
Natural Rate of Unemployment (Short-Term) (DISCONTINUED)
4.272469999999999
Percent
Q4 2031

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