Nearly half of the unemployed in the US, for example, have now been out of work for six months or longer, up from the traditional median unemployment duration of just 10 weeks. The long-term unemployed will be much slower to be hired as the economy recovers than those who have been out of work for a much shorter period of time.
当前的反常失业高企进一步增加了未来通胀的风险。比如，近一半的失业者已有六个月甚至更长时间找不到工作，而常规中位失业期只有10周。当经济复苏时，长期失业者要花比失业期较短者多得多的时间才找得到新工作。