TY - BOOK ID - 137593726 TI - A New Claims-Based Unemployment Dataset: Application to Postwar Recoveries Across U.S. States AU - Fieldhouse, Andrew. AU - Howard, Sean. AU - Koch, Christoffer. AU - Munro, David. PY - 2022 SN - 9798400213144 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Labor KW - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data KW - Data Access KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Business Fluctuations KW - Cycles KW - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search KW - Unemployment Insurance KW - Severance Pay KW - Plant Closings KW - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes KW - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data) KW - Demand and Supply of Labor: General KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Economic growth KW - Unemployment rate KW - Economic recession KW - Business cycles KW - Labor markets KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Recessions KW - Labor market UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137593726 AB - Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U.S. states going back to January 1947. The constructed series are highly correlated with the Bureau of Labor Statics' state-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state level. We find that faster recoveries are associated with greater heterogeneity in the recovery rate of unemployment and slower recoveries tend to be more uniformly paced across states. In addition, we find that the pace of unemployment recoveries is strongly correlated with a states' manufacturing share of output. ER -