Showing posts with label labor force. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor force. Show all posts
Saturday, April 17, 2021

17/4/21: Collapsing Labor Force Participation: A Secular Trend

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  For those of you following this blog this would be a familiar sight: I have been worrying about the underlying structure of the U.S. labor...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

15/12/20: Impact of Covid19 on families & labor

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  Some interesting research on the less tangible differential impacts of Covid19 pandemic via McKinsey: families with children and families ...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

27/9/20: U.S. Labor Force Participation and Employment-Population Ratios

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 Yesterday, I posted updates to the America's Scariest Charts series on the U.S. labor markets (see  https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

29/4/20: Surprising Effects of COVID19 on U.S. Labor Force

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Mid-run COVID pandemic effects on U.S. employment, unemployment and labour force participation rates via:  https://voxeu.org/article/labou...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

8/8/19: Upbeat Jobs Reports Miss Some Real Points

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Unemployment claims down, the weekly jobs report seemed to have triggered the usual litany of positive commentary in the business media ...
Friday, July 26, 2019

26/7/19: Stop Equating Low Unemployment Rate to High Employment Rate

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There is always a lot of excitement around the unemployment stats these days. Why, with near-historical lows, and the talk about 'full...
Monday, June 3, 2019

3/6/19: Three Periods in labor Force Participation Rate Evolution and Secular Stagnations

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The state of the global labor markets is reflected not only in the record lows in official unemployment statistics, but also in the low la...
Friday, November 30, 2018

30/11/18: Ireland’s Dependency Ratio Problem?

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Ireland seems to have a twin dependency. or rather a triple dependency problem: Younger population means larger share of population is ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

11/9/18: Slow Recoveries & Unemployment Traps: Hysteresis and/or Secular Stagnation

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The twin secular stagnations hypothesis (TSSH, first postulated on this blog) that combines supply-side (technological cyclicality) and de...