Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development released employment figures today. Nonfarm payroll employment down 12,000, private NFP down 11,000, month-on-month.
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Category Archives: Wisconsin
Identities, Parameters and Regressions
A reader comments:
Your final jab in this post regresses the state output gap on the fiscal gap. You then conclude that there is a positive relation between the two and that this somehow implies that a reduction in gov’t spending is a drag on the economy. I’ll just point out that …. that gov’t spending is a component of GSP. Of course they’re positively related.
Two Employment Goals: Kansas, Wisconsin
In Governor Brownback’s re-election campaign, he committed to 25,000 new jobs per year in his next term. This is reminiscent of Governor Walker’s August 2013 promise to create 250,000 new private sector jobs over the four years of his first term, by January 2015. How are things going?
Kansas: “This other Eden, demi(Austrian)-paradise”
On reading my recent post on Kansas economic performance in the reign of Brownback, which included this graph:
Figure 1: Private nonfarm payroll employment in Kansas (red), in US (blue), in logs normalized to 2011M01=0. Dashed line at 2011M01, Brownback term begins. Source: BLS, author’s calculations.
A&M Professor/Extension Economist Levi Russell writes “Your analysis is highly flawed”.
Revised Coincident Indices for the Midwest: Wisconsin at the Back of the Pack!
Again.
Wisconsin’s Dependence on Exports
On the eve of the primary votes in Wisconsin, where protectionists are set to make some inroads, it’s of interest to consider the state’s reliance on exports — including those to China (a target of both Senator Sanders and Mr. Trump) and Mexico [1].
Wisconsin Employment Still Lags (Quelle Surprise!)
BLS just released state level data. Wisconsin employment nonfarm payroll employment is up, but remains below what is expected given the historical relationship between US and Wisconsin employment — by 63.2 thousand…
“The End of Research in Wisconsin”
That’s the title of a Slate article documenting the implications of recent policy actions implemented in the state of Wisconsin.
Not Quite: “…Wisconsin has left its former Democratic party-controlled (Midwest) peers behind”
One conservative meme is that Wisconsin’s apparently poor economic performance relative to other Midwest states is due to an inappropriate choice of reference dates; for instance, a year ago, Political Calculations made the assertion in the title, based on a July 2013 reference date. The logic?
Benchmarked Wisconsin Private Nonfarm Payroll Declines
While the BLS state level data will come out on Monday (see discussion here), the individual states release slightly earlier. Wisconsin released employment data today.