Lifted from comments: Dean Baker adds a comment on Spencer England’s post on Part time employment statistics being (Spencer writes…”John R. Graham is a beautiful example of a little knowledge…

…to labor is found by… Labor share/employment Employment = (1 – unemployment) Anwar Shaikh uses this measure of employment, (1 – unemployment), quite a bit in his work as I…

…needed to dampen the inflationary effects of wage rises. A survey of employers in October by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation chimed with the BoE report after it found firms…

August jobs report: overall progress, with some new highs and some givebacks – by New Deal democrat HEADLINES: +201,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate unchanged at 3.9% U6 underemployment rate…

…this Friday. Since the BLS started to report the series in 1991, temporary employment has tended to peak roughly 6 to 9 months before overall employment, and to bottom roughly…

A decelerating Staffing Index suggests that weakening temporary jobs in the monthly employment report is not just noise Every week I report the YoY 4 week rolling average of American…

…employment in a recognized position” for which they were trained. Making the words “gainful employment in a recognized position” disappear is what made prior scammers nervous when the government would…

…a non agricultural non oil goods trade deficit surging from 1991 through 2005. In contrast the declines in manufacturing employment are 2000-2003 then 2008q1-2010q2. The raw correlation looks low. By…

…the unemployment rate has trended slightly downward. If initial claims continue to trend sideways, I expect the unemployment rate to stagnate as well. Note also that initial claims will have…

…OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT AND GDP. AGAINST SINCE LATE ’40s. AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE THAT’S BEEN RATHER DECLINING RATHER STEADILY. AND MANUFACTURING’S OUTPUT SHARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS…