02260cas a2200337 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022963 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 20.00 USD 9798400212604 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Fieldhouse, Andrew. A New Claims-Based Unemployment Dataset : Application to Postwar Recoveries Across U.S. States / Andrew Fieldhouse, Sean Howard, Christoffer Koch, David Munro. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (56 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet Data Access imf Employment imf Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data imf Unemployment imf Wages imf Howard, Sean. Koch, Christoffer. Munro, David.. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/117 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1018-5941&volume=2022&issue=117 IMF e-Library