…more leading new orders indexes were strongly positive. But as with manufacturing, the employment situation is not so sanguine. It has been in contraction, and contracted a further -0.1 to…

Calculated Risk revisits the employment to poulation ratios: …What happens to the participation rate is an important question. If the Civilian noninstitutional population (over 16 years old) grows by about…

JOLTS report for January: the game of employment musical chairs continues The Census Bureau JOLTS report for January, released this morning, indicates that the jobs market continues to be nowhere…

Initial claims: a little cooling in the white hot employment market Initial jobless claims rose 21,000 to 218,000, continuing above the recent 50+ year low of 166,000 set in March….

…entrants to the labor force who fail to find their first job will not show up in unemployment claims; but they will show up in the unemployment rate.” I think…

…comparisons make clear that state government employment increased 2.8% in Massachusetts, more than twice the national state government employment aggregate of 1.1%. Private sector employment over the same period in…

I had problems with the blogger account and was not able to sign on until 2:30 this afternoon.. It is a little late for analysis of the employment report, so…

…policy choice. So long as the economy faces high unemployment, there is no fiscal formula — no combination of tax increases and spending cuts — that can make it go…

…poor. Trickle down via transfers occurs in various ways. In some countries pensions, unemployment compensation, and related benefits are indexed to average wages, so they tend to rise automatically as…

By Spencer, Sorry, I have been tied up with other things and have not done my usual charts on the employment report. Others seem to be doing a pretty good…