Stronger employment growth in February than I and many others had been expecting.
Category Archives: employment
Some context for the annual benchmark revision of employment
(Revised) Employment growth is up, but (revised) employment is down.
Latest employment data
The latest employment data are quite encouraging, though some may have overstated the case for enthusiasm.
Autos and the U.S. economy
A number of analysts have suggested that autos play a much less significant role in the U.S. economy today than they have historically. The data from 2005 would seem to call that conclusion into question.
Hazards of partial reading and partial equilibrium analysis
For some people, the answer to every problem is a tax cut
Properties of Some Labor Market Indicators
The information content of the establishment vs. household-based employment series vs. hours worked.
The post-recession employment record
How well are workers doing?
Declining real wages
How concerned should we be about the downward trend in real wages?
Latest employment statistics: the clear thing is that it’s not at all clear
Last week’s GDP statistics and this week’s productivity data gave us something to cheer about. Friday’s employment figures do not.
Ford joins the club
Having commented on a number of occasions about General Motors’ woes, and striving to be an Equal Opportunity PunditTM, it’s only fair to give credit where credit is due. Ford this week showed that it can compete with the best of them in terms of losing money,
posting a loss on its North American operations of $1.2 billion for the third quarter and $2.4 billion over the last 15 months. I’m not sure what advice to give Ford. But here’s what I think we might expect from U.S. policy makers.