With so much slack in the economy and so many Americans still looking for jobs, why hasn’t inflation been falling further? University of Texas Professor Olivier Coibion and Berkeley Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko propose an answer in an interesting new research paper.
Category Archives: employment
The September Employment Situation
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Some Selected State and National Employment Indicators
The BLS released today estimates for August state employment. In Figure 1 below, I show US, Wisconsin, Minnesota and California private nonfarm payroll employment figures, normalized to January 2011, when the governors of the three states took office.
Observations on the Labor Market
One of these is not like the others – local government employment stabilizes, but state does not – structural unemployment decreases – Obamacare does not cause the rise in part time employment
The geography of success
Weak U.S. economic growth continues to be discouraging. But it’s worth taking a look at a few places where things going well for America.
Ever Expanding Government Employment
…in the minds of the too-busy-to-consult-data, but have time to comment on blogs
Ever Expanding Government Employment Assessed, Yet Again
(It is expanding as long as down is redefined as up)
Slow and Steady Employment Growth Continues
Plausible and Implausible Explanations for the lagging pace of growth
Heritage Assesses the Ever-Expanding Ever-Centralizing Federal Government Sector
In a graphically interesting discussion of the April employment situation release, James Sherk and Salim Furth write:
Trend and Nonlinear Cyclical Employment Dynamics
How much of the US employment shortfall is due to trend factors?