Unemployment remains high in 2010

"The U.S. labor market remained weak in 2010 in the wake of the marked economic deterioration that had taken place the previous 2 years. Although both the level and rate of unemployment fell during the first quarter of 2010 - the first improvement since the 2007-09 recession - unemployment showed little or no change during the remainder of the year. In the fourth quarter of 2010, 14.8 million persons were unemployed and the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent, down from a 26-year high of 10.0 percent a year earlier. During 2010, the number of employed persons 16 years and older, as measured by the Current Population Survey (CPS), increased by 751,000, to 139.1 million. The rise in the number of employed persons in 2010 followed a sharp decline of 5.7 million in the prior year." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1969 bis 2010. (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).