How can we improve noisy labor market data? @BrookingsInstitution
How can we improve noisy labor market data?  @BrookingsInstitution
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Data on labor markets is incredibly important to policymakers, from state and federal legislators to the central bank and Treasury Department. But this data is often noisy or incomplete. A new BPEA paper draws on a large body of data sets going back to 1960 to develop a novel approach to studying labor markets that can help fill these gaps. On this episode of the Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity, Brookings Senior Fellow Louise Sheiner talks to Ayşegül Şahin, one of the paper authors, about this new methodology.

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How can we improve noisy labor market data?

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