…employment continues to rise” speak for or against anything when, in fact, employment doesn’t continue to rise? It’s going to take another blog post (or two) to unravel this unholy…

…stubbornly high unemployment. The only way to reduce a deficit caused by unemployment is to reduce unemployment. And this must be done with a substantial component of private financing, which…

…ratio between the Civilian Non Institution Population and Civilian Labor Force in the BLS Household Unemployment Report. From 1970 until 2001, the overall trend has been upwards as detailed here:…

The Nation carried an op-ed on the expansion of both privatizing government functions, de-fanging regulations, and creating a global network capable of sidestepping most nations. This is part of the…

The February index of aggregate hours worked was 107.3 as compared to a 4th quarter average of 107.7. That implies that first quarter hours worked are falling at about a…

…weakness in finance. Employment growth in that sector just turned negative and it will almost certainly remain negative for some time. Finance employment is now about 6% of payroll employment…

David Altig says yes. He also reviews a recent paper by Stephanie Aaronson, Bruce Fallick, Andrew Figura, Jonathan Pingle and William Wascher entitled The Recent Decline in Labor Force Participation…

Menzie Chinn provides a link to an interesting analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in his post entitled Properties of Some Labor Market Indicators. Dr. Chinn’s post is an…

…employment to population ratio: Over the past decade, Ireland’s real domestic product per head has doubled, and its national unemployment rate has declined from 16 percent to less than 5…

…about economic growth and increasing employment, the employment-to-population ratio remains at only 62.8%. While it had risen from 62.1% as of September 2003 to 62.8% as of July 2005, it…