In each of the last three school years, the number of education jobs in state and local government has declined. The October employment report out Friday will show whether that trend has finally ended.
Category: jobs
The Flawed Case for Fiscal Stimulus
The safety-net programs in the federal stimulus that helped fight the recession came at a cost of weakening incentives to work or hire, an economist writes.
A Restrained Outlook on Jobs
Moody’s economists add a splash of cold water to some of the numbers that have emerged in recent days.
The Global Arbitrage of Online Work
A global market for online work lets good workers in bad places snatch business from better-performing environments, Quentin Hardy writes on Bits.
Getting the Number Wrong
Mitt Romney said there were 23 million Americans struggling to find work. But some of the groups in the calculation may have been counted twice.
Forecasting Unemployment
According to two economists with a new forecasting model, the jobless rate should stick pretty much where it is for months.
Taming Volatile Raw Data for Jobs Reports
A source of volatility in the last couple of months — and one of the biggest contributors to the bump in employment in September — was the group between the ages of 20 and 24.
Portraits of a Moderate Economy
Several recent interviews help capture the essence of economic reports that indicate an improving consumer outlook but some hesitation among businesses about increasing their spending.
Rise of the Reluctant Part-Timer Class
The unemployment rate fell substantially in September, but a large part of that increase appears to reflect people who found part-time work when they really wanted full-time work.
A Lift for the Worst Off
The really impressive figures in the jobs report were in the categories of people who have suffered the most.