Jobs Reports & Forecasts

It’s a powerful indication of the insanity plaguing the headlines these days that a global pandemic that has, so far, claimed over 100,000 lives in the U.S., put at least 40 million people out of work, driven unemployment to depression-era …

As we wrote last week, we’ve seen a relatively sharp increase in new job openings across most of the country since the end of April. Through May 17th, new job listings on company and employer websites throughout the country had …

As states begin relaxing lockdown restrictions and opening up their economies, we are analyzing our job market data closely for indications of how quickly the labor market might recover at a local and national level. We’ll be posting more detailed …

In the mad dash to get our NFP forecast and the related job market data out as quickly as possible in advance of tomorrow’s jobs report, I will keep the broader commentary to a minimum (as in none) and just …

We’ll be publishing a ton of graphs and charts next week in conjunction with our non-farm payroll forecast for April, but one of the charts we are looking at closely these days for any hint of a positive signal is …

The first quarter of 2020 brought the impacts of novel coronavirus into sharp focus. Examining labor demand across the entire economy from a macro, sector, occupation, and geographic level, we created a COVID-specific edition of our quarterly Economic Indicators Report. …

As we’ve highlighted a number of times in the past few weeks, one of the analytics we’re tracking closely these days is The LinkUp 10,000. The analytic, which we calculate both daily and monthly, tracks the total number of unique …

As we highlighted in our April 2nd post in conjunction with our non-farm payroll forecast for March, job openings from company and employer websites around the country dropped roughly 20% in March. In that post, we published a series of …

On April 2nd, we published our NFP forecast for March that included, among a pile of job market data sourced directly from company and employer websites, a map that showed declines in job openings by state for the month. In …

As we wrote earlier this month in our recap of the unprecedented decline in labor demand across the U.S. in March, we rarely look at LinkUp’s sponsored jobs as a source of precise insight into labor demand across the economy …