Must-Read: Danny Yagan: Is the Great Recession Really Over?

Must-Read: Danny Yagan: Is the Great Recession Really Over?:

Starting the recession in a below- median 2007-2009-employment-shock area caused workers to be 1.0 percentage points less likely to be employed in 2014….

This enduring impact holds even when controlling for current local unemployment rates, which have converged across space. The results demonstrate limits to U.S. local labor market integration and suggest hysteresis effects culminating in labor force exit.