Employment Survey's Diverge

The Washington Post details: One is called the payroll survey. It asks mostly large companies and government agencies how many people they ...

Gaming the System... Disability Edition

In my post outlining the decline in employment (excluding teens), reader Mike pointed out another interesting phenomenon: One of the storie...

Employment (Excluding Teen Hires) Turns Negative

Peter Boockvar provides details of the ugly job report: June Payrolls totaled 80,000, 20,000 less than expected and well below the ADP whis...

Ugliest Employment Chart You'll See?

Per Felix Salmon : As Mike Konczal noted this morning, a key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re s...

Employment Market Continues to Muddle Along

The NY Times details: The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less tha...

Employment Report: Not as Bad as I First Thought

Upon first glance, Friday's employment release was disappointing , but Scott Grannis pointed to something that does provide optimism. I...

A Weak Jobs Report

While the payroll (i.e. business) survey showed a net gain of 120,000 jobs in March (which in itself was weak), the household survey (the su...

Employment Breakdown... Are We There Yet Edition?

The Washington Post details: U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recessi...

Employment Data Stripping Out Adjustments

As I detailed yesterday , over the past few years: the population grew at a much faster rate than previously expected The result is that whi...

Breaking Down the Labor Report

Good News The LA Times details the good news coming out of this morning's jobs report: The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straigh...

Where the Ladies at?

My last post Men at Work outlined that employment among men has rebounded since 2009, while employment among women has stagnated over that ...

Men at Work

The NY Post details (hat tip Eddy ): Since the US economic recovery started in mid-2009, a whopping 97 percent of the new jobs — all but 43...

Employment: Positive, But No Blow Out

The Good: Unemployment rates (both headline and those including underemployed) continued to decline. The Bad: unemployment rates continued t...

Is this the Employment Figure We've Been Waiting For?

Is this finally an employment figure that shows we are out of the weeds? Not so fast per Peter Boockvar (via The Big Picture ): ADP said pri...

Traction on the Jobs Front... Headline vs. Actual

First the (very strong) "headline", then the details. The WSJ with the headline: The U.S. labor market strengthened in November a...

Unemployment: Due to Lack of Domestic Expansion, Not Layoffs

The BLS released their latest Business Employment Dynamics report that breaks out positive change in employment (by expansions and new busi...

R.I.P. Teen Workforce

Last Thursday, my friend GYSC had a post at his blog Economic Disconnect titled Odd Jobs Over the Years . He outlined the jobs he has had ...

Job Opening and Labor Turnover Point to (Slow) Recovery

NPR reports: U.S. employers advertised more jobs in September than at any other point in the past three years. The increase suggests hiring...

Breaking Down Employment

BusinessWeek details: U.S. employment climbed in October at the slowest pace in four months, illustrating the “frustratingly slow” progress...

Employment Reports Mixed

PBS details: According to the "establishment survey" of places that hire, the economy added more jobs than predicted: just over 1...