…real GDP growth and annual employment growth of around 1.6%. . By 2020 this would bring the unemployment rate under 5%. Currently, oil & gas exploration employment is some 0.15%…

In earlier post 2slugs comments about teen employment got me to look at the data. 2slugs pointed out that in June all the drop in employment was teens as employment…

…is wrong… Full employment is based on employment of labor. However, full employment must consider both labor and capital since they are both resources for production. You might see a…

…Portugal, Romania and Ukraine had declines in aggregate employment. Denmark had no increase in employment. There was no consumption-based data for Uzbekistan and its reported employment data (ILO) does not…

…rate of unemployment? 3. What is the maximum acceptable or safe employment to population ratio? David replied: Mechanically, that’s an easy one to answer. The estimated Taylor rule in the…

…of rising part time employment. But I would suggest he really ought to look at the data. Part time employment has a very strong cyclical pattern. It’s share of employment…

The coming slowdown in employment Last summer I wrote a piece entitled “What the compressed yield curve means for employment.” I re-read it over the weekend, and in light of…

…help employment have been down for over a year. Manufacturing employment has declined very slightly (-1,000) in each of the past two months. Finally, residential construction employment, which had been…

…employment in the private and nonprofit sectors. But even if DOGE reduces federal employment by 200,000 and canceling contracts reduces contact and grant employment (by a proportional) 600,000, the total…

…market is a far different story. To regain employment lost since June 2008, 6.9 MILLION jobs need to be added back to the employment figures of the current population survey….