As we’ve highlighted over the past few months, we’re closely tracking new job openings across the U.S. as one of the key, real-time indicators of what’s happening not just in the labor market but the economy as a whole at …
Labor Market
Happy 4th and Wear A Mask
Toby Dayton
With a shortened holiday week, combined with an early, Thursday Employment Situation release, I will keep this month’s NFP forecast commentary short and get straight to our data. As we’ve been saying for the past two months, labor demand continued …
What Federalism Looks Like in 2020
Toby Dayton
It’s been a sobering week, to say the least, on a number of fronts. At the same time that daily COVID cases reached record levels nationally, driven mostly by states that opened up aggressively and disregarded health protocols, unemployment claims …
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 …
There are many data points that help to tell the story of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, we were particularly interested in what LinkUp data tells us about how states job counts are changing amid the pandemic, and whether there …
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. …
