Macroeconomics 12th Edition by Rudiger Dornbusch ,Stanley Fischer,Richard Startz

تمرين 5

Were some subpopulations hit harder by the Great Recession
a. Go to www.bls.gov/data/#unemployment under "Labor Force Statistics" click on "Top Picks." Download unemployment rate data for 2007-2013 for the following six groups: men age 20+; women age 20+; white, black or African American, ages 25+ without a high school diploma, and ages 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher.
b. Create three graphs comparing the unemployment rates of (1) women versus men, (2) white versus black, and (3) college educated versus high school dropout.
c. Which, if any, of these groups seem to have fared worse in the Great Recession