Unemployment who is to blame

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In the United States, workers quitting their jobs increased by almost , in the past year, meaning companies need to rethink their talent strategies. I accept. Ghayad shows us just how much it doesn't by breaking out the Beveridge curves for the unemployed who can and can't get benefits. Now, the Beveridge curve just shows the relationship between job openings and joblessness, and it should be just that -- a curve. There should be a pretty stable relationship between the two. If there's not, and the curve shifts out or up, it's a sign that the labor market is somehow broken.

As you can see below, it's been badly broken for the unemployed who can collect benefits ever since late Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. But it's also been badly broken for the unemployed who can't collect benefits.

It's hard to see how the group above is getting disincentivized, but the group below is not. But is the labor market more broken for one group than for the other? Well, Ghayad looked at the overall Beveridge curve from January through August , and projected where it "should" have been if the previous trend had held.

Then he looked at the Beveridge curves for the unemployed who can and can't collect benefits, and calculated how much their gaps from the trend explained the overall gap.