Methodology for Calculating Demographics-Corrected Normal Employment Level

reposting from my no-longer-active US and Economics blog, original was November 2012 The Great Recession entailed a huge rise in unemploymen...

Employment and Dynamic Scoring

Mike Smitka Economics, Washington and Lee University Here are quick notes on my WREL Lexington AM 1450 radio show of October 8, 2015. There...

Employment: tortoise slow, tortoise steady?

Since Summer 2011 job growth has generally outpaced population growth, adjusting for the retirement of the baby boomers. However, it's a...

Talking Macro: WREL show February 20, 2014

Here are notes from my weekly radio show on WREL Lexington, Virginia. The actual show seldom covers all of the topics I prepare, as what I d...

Two Further LF Graphs

While I continue to work on a blog post on Mitsubishi Motors, let me put up two further graphs on employment by age bracket, broken into (i)...

(un) Employment

The latest Current Population Survey (and Current Employment Survey) data show a labor market that barely grew, once you account for demogra...

Data update: November 2013

Here are assorted data for your perusal – unfortunately due to the government shutdown data releases are delayed or (for certain data) a mon...

June data update

Here are 3 charts from Friday's release of (un)employment and auto sales data. First, looking at employment-population ratios shows very...