Rochelle Tishuk
Each month we examine our job market data and find trends worth sharing. Here are the latest highlights from September 2018: Target Holiday Hiring Boost In September, Target announced plans to hire a record 120,000 seasonal workers in 2018, a 20 percent increase over 2017. In our …
Toby Dayton
In discussing the decision this week to raise rates as most people expected, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated that the U.S. economy was experiencing ‘a particularly bright moment’ and the Fed described economic conditions as ‘strong.’ Even with the …
Rochelle Tishuk
The Information sector contains some of the hottest businesses right now such as Facebook, Twitter, Disney, and the newly formed government contractor, Perspecta, Inc. Therefore, we thought we would analyze job openings in this hot industry for this month’s Monthly …
Given the accuracy of our non-farm payrolls forecast last month and the fact that we’ve finally clawed our way back up to our 5-year historical batting average, we’ll continue the somewhat narcissistic and highly self-serving theme we started last month …
Meg Slindee
The health of a job market is best measured by considering multiple factors, including unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, wage growth, and more. New to this list of measures is LinkUp’s Job Market Diversification score, a figure assessing market …
Having just recently traversed the halfway point of the year, I thought it would be a good time to look at our YTD NFP forecasting results and assign ourselves a mid-term grade. Luckily, with our forecast last month for stronger …
With the recent launch of The LinkUp 10,000 that we’re still incorporating into our models and ongoing work and correlation analysis around the last few components of our Macro Job Market Data package that will be released in July, combined …
Right behind the chaos in the White House, The Mueller Investigation, North Korea, Michael Cohen, The Royal Wedding, The Avengers, Yanny/Laurel, Elon Musk, Season 14 of the Bachelorette, community adjusted EBITDA (and deep junk), Roseanne (seriously, WTF!?!), on-again/off-again/on-again trade wars …
Toby Dayton
A month or so ago, listening to Beck’s Paper Tiger, one particular line stuck in my head as a perfect description for the times we live in. What better way to describe this current End-of-Days-type era than as ‘a stray …
Toby Dayton
In the forecasting business, particularly one as difficult as non-farm payrolls, it’s difficult to refrain from periodic instances of self-congratulatory gloating. So bear with me for just a minute as I begin this month’s NFP post by turning back to …
