Labor Market

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 …

There is much discussion in the press about the Trump administration’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum. While perspectives vary on the positive and negative impacts, one thing everyone seems to agree on is that there are always winners and …

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 …

LinkUp’s job listing data provides incredible insights into the U.S. labor market at all levels, but layering with additional external data sets such as salary, provides an even richer picture. Our data team recently compared salary data for Software Developer, …

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 …

In nature, more biodiversity means more life. In a healthy ecosystem, all species have a role and those roles support each other, whether directly or indirectly. Coral reefs are the perfect example. Occupying less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral …

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 …

It’s no secret that future is tech. In fact, the United States is the largest tech market in the world, representing 31 percent of the total, or approximately $1.5 trillion for 2018, according to CompTIA’s IT Industry Outlook 2018. In the …

When it comes to unemployment rates across the U.S., much is written and discussed about the effects of joblessness, but what about the causes? We were curious about whether our job market data could tell us anything about what causes …

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 …