rssStructural v. Cyclical, Again
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 1:22 pm
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The question of whether the United States’ unemployment is structural (due to some industries getting bigger and others shrinking, not ameliorated much by stimulus spending or looser monetary policy) or cyclical (due to an economy-wide lack of demand, ameliorated by stimulus spending and looser monetary policy) continues to rage — with a spate of recent Paul Krugman and Ryan Avent posts.
I continue to think the United States clearly has both problems. The entire economy — basically, every state, every city, every business, everywhere — is suffering because sales are down. That problem is primary. On top of that, workers in certain shrinking sectors — most notably construction — need to find new trades.
Here’s a chart showing employment in various major economic sectors. (The x-axis is years, starting in 2005, and the y-axis shows the number of jobs relative to 2005.) Most sectors have declined, but some are much worse off than others — demonstrating the unemployment as cyclical and structural.
In an interesting related post, Mike Konczal shows that a lot of the United States’ structural unemployment is due to the housing crisis — more than due to skills mismatch. Workers that cannot sell their houses cannot move to new, better jobs. That means that those workers tend to stay unemployed for longer. Indeed, Konczal cites an IMF study showing that the country’s housing woes cause two or 2.5 times more unemployment than the skills-mismatch problem does.
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