What Explains Employment Developments in the U.S.?


 

Publication Date: November 2000

Publisher: Economic Policy Institute

Author(s): Eileen Appelbaum

Research Area: Economics; Labor

Type: Brief

Abstract:

The economic expansion in the United States turned 115 months old in October 2000, exceeding even the 106-month expansion of the 1960s associated with the war in Vietnam. The current expansion is, in fact, the longest in the economic history of the U.S.