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June 2004

The labor force and unemployment: three generations of change

Jessica R. Sincavage

The influence of the baby-boom generation on the U.S. unemployment rate continues unabated today; the subsequent, smaller generation X'ers and echo boomers have had considerably less of an influence on the rate.

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