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• Boston Globe: Stimulus job boost in state exaggerated, review finds

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started. Read it all .
  14 hours ago

• Mysteries of the BLS Seasonal Adjustment Process

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 805
  Remember on Friday when unemployment rose and 190,000 jobs were lost? Floyd Norris points out that even though these events were widely reported they didn’t actually happen . Instead, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of jobs went up and the unemployment rate went down. But then a seasonal ...
  1 day ago

• AUD/USD: Trading the Change in Australian Employment

  
  Forex - Foreign Exchange Blog — Authority: 149
  The Australian dollar could face increased selling pressures over the next 24 hours of trading as economists forecast employment to fall 10.0K in October, and the slump in the labor market is likely to hamper the outlook for private spending as households continue to face tightened credit conditions paired with fading ...
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• Is “Fresh Water Macro” Off Track?

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 644
  Should macroeconomists begin again, particularly those at Chicago, Minnesota, Rochester and other freshwater schools? These days, commentators tell us that we should scrap all that we hold dear – neoclassical growth models, asset pricing models, and the efficient market hypothesis alike.And not...
  1 day ago

• Program evaluation: estimation vs. simulation

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 467
  Simulations are a tool that is more and more used to evaluate policies. This is in particular important when these policies have never been implemented before and thus there is no historical data to draw on. How good are such simulations? One way to check this is to do an ex-ante simulation of a policy change that ...
  2 days ago

• Israels Nasty Minimum Wage, by David Henderson

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  The government is considering establishing work camps in the south of the country, where illegal migrant workers will receive shelter, food and medical care, Army Radio reported Wednesday. In exchange, illegal migrants would perform manual labor outside the camps, but would not earn a salary. They would stay at the ...
  2 days ago

• November 2009 Retail Labor Index Report

  
  The Workforce Institute — Authority: 103
  Guest Blog from Kelly Northrop , Analytics Consultant at Kronos: The November release of the Kronos Retail Labor Index includes results for both September and October 2009.  After an uptick in August to 3.00%, the September Index dropped to 2.58% (for every 100 applications received, 2.58 hirings occurred).  ...
  3 days ago

• Why Won’t the President Just Create the Jobs?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 512
  The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis asks a rather provocative question in today’s Outlook section: “Why won’t Obama give you a job?” The article challenges the Administration’s claim that “the stimulus is working” and argues that the Administration could have done or be doing better for the ...
  3 days ago

• , by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  If all goes well this link will take you to an article (with cool charts!) where I make an empirical case for telling the Recalculation story rather than pretending that we have the same economy that existed in the 1930s when John Maynard Keynes developed his model. Im scheduling this post to appear on Saturday, ...
  5 days ago

• WSJ Front Page: Grim Milestone as Jobless Rate Tops 10%

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The unemployment rate last month soared above 10% for the first time since the early 1980s, a milestone likely to weigh on consumer confidence and stir new efforts in Washington to spur job creation. Some 558,000 people joined the ranks of the jobless in October, sending the rate to 10.2% and the tally of officially ...
  5 days ago

• Innocent Bystanders: The Employment Picture and the Current Administration’s Stimulus Defense

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The President and his economic team have claimed that the plan is working as intended , that they’re on track to save the original goal of 3.6 million jobs, but somehow, despite practically drowning in success, we’re going to have to live with high unemployment for years to come . Oh, and that everything ...
  6 days ago

• US jobless rate at 26 year high, crosses 10 percent mark

  
  Global Crisis News — Authority: 470
  Unemployment in the US increased more than expected last month to record  a 26 year high as employers continued to cut jobs, showing signs that that the struggle in the labor market carries on as the country’s economy tries to come out of recession. According to reports by the Labor Department, household surveys ...
  6 days ago

• U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The American unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October, its highest level in 26 years, as the economy lost another 190,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday. The jump into the realm of double-digit joblessness — from 9.8 percent in September — provided a sobering reminder that, despite the ...
  6 days ago

• Here is a stat for you. Over 80,000 empty buildings and lots in Detroit alone. Whew!!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  A note about temporary work. I was one of those back in the 70s and 80s that was employed as a temporary employee. The thing is I had job skills. So I was kept busy for many years making more than being employed full-time. I grew to know many in the temporary market because I relocated several times due to job ...
  6 days ago

• Battered Company Says ‘No’ To Job Cuts

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The Hypertherm factory sits hidden in the woods not far from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.... ...late last year, production of ships and cars pretty much ground to a halt. And sales of cutting systems at Hypertherm dropped 50 percent. How many workers did the company lay off? None. It put them to work doing ...
  6 days ago

• Wisdom Worth Repeating, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Tyler Cowen repeats a tweet, and I will too. It comes from Masonomist Garett Jones . Workers mostly build organizational capital, not final output. This explains high productivity per worker during recessions. This is yet another difference between the labor force today and the labor force of the 1930s. Back ...
  6 days ago

• Reducing Real Compensation, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Alex Tabarrok highlights a post by David Beckworth on the sharp decline in nominal spending in 2008-2009. Alex writes, We could use some inflation to get back on track. Nominal wages are simply not flexible enough to get the job done in short order I would caution that lower real wages are only part of the ...
  1 week ago

• Is crime a habit?

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 467
  Why are there repeat offender and career criminals? The obvious answers would be that this is where there comparative advantage is, or that they have nothing to lose once they served the first sentence. But what about crime being addicting?This is what Vladimir Kuhl Teles and Joaquim Andrade explore what would happen ...
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• Residential and NonResidential Construction Through September

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 644
  Residential construction spending was higher in September than in August, which was itself higher than in July, which was itself higher than in June.Interestingly, I predicted last December that the housing market would turn around in the summer of 2009. By now, we have seen enough housing price...
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• Salena Zito: Mood Sours Towards Both Parties

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  What does all of this mean? Populism is on the rise and conservatism is gaining steam, perhaps at its own expense. (If Hoffman loses in New York, it almost ensures that the Northeast will be almost exclusively Democrat-blue territory). A sour mood exists among people, with close-to-10-percent unemployment, ...
  1 week ago

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