Moreover, the decline in unemployment largely reflects persistently grim labor-market conditions, which have discouraged many workers from remaining in the labor force. If the labor-force participation rate was 66%, as it was in early 2008, rather than 62.8%, as it was in December 2013, the unemployment rate would be just over 11%, not 6.7%.
此外，失业的减少大体上反映了劳动力市场的萧条状况，这让许多工人退出了劳动力市场。如果劳动力参与率保持在2008年初的66%而非2013年12月的62.8%，则失业率将会略高于11%，而不是6%。