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Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com/ .US Employment Data: January Report and Upward Revisions Maintain Stronger Trend Posted Feb. 3, 2012 Terms of Use: These slides are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution— Share Alike 3.0 . You are free to use these slides as a resource for your economics classes together with whatever textbook you are using. If you like the slides, you may also want to take a look at my textbook, Introduction to Economics, from BVT Publishers.

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Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com Payroll Jobs Grow Strongly in January  Total payroll job growth for January was a stronger 243,000, including 257,000 in the private sector  The preliminary estimates are subject to revision. The Dec. figure was revised up to 203,000 from 200,000 and Nov. from 100,000 to 157,000  Both goods producing and service jobs gained, but government lost 14,000 jobs at all levels  A separate household survey reported 847,000 new jobs, including farm jobs and self-employment

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Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com Unemployment Rate Lowest in almost Three Years  The unemployment rate, which is the ratio of unemployed persons to the labor force, dropped to 8.3 percent, its lowest since February 2009  The decrease in the unemployment rate came partly from an increase in the labor force and partly from a decrease in the number of unemployed workers  Starting in January, the population basis was shifted from the 2000 census to the 2010 census. However, the shift did not affect the unemployment rate

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Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com Broad vs. Standard Unemployment Rate  The BLS also provides a broader measure of job-market stress, U-6  The numerator of U-6 includes  Unemployed persons  Marginally attached persons who would like to work but are not looking because they think there are no jobs  Part-time workers who would prefer full-time work but can’t find it  The denominator includes the labor force plus the marginally attached  U-6 fell slightly in January to 15.1 percent, continuing a downward trend

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Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com Employment-Population Ratio Continues Slow Rise  The employment to population ratio was unchanged at 58.5 percent, up from its all-time low of July 2011  The ratio would have been 0.3 percent higher without the shift in population basis from the 2000 to the 2010 census  The long-term downward trend in this ratio reflects several factors  Slow job growth  More discouraged workers, who do not look for jobs because they think none are available  More retired persons as the population ages

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Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com Employment-Population Ratio Continues Slow Rise  The employment to population ratio was unchanged at 58.5 percent, up from its all-time low of July 2011  The ratio would have been 0.3 percent higher without the shift in population basis from the 2000 to the 2010 census  The long-term downward trend in this ratio reflects several factors  Slow job growth  More discouraged workers, who do not look for jobs because they think none are available  More retired persons as the population ages