Jobs
Employment is the foundation of the standard of living most Americans will enjoy in their working age and retirement. A healthy job market is one where willing workers can find decent employment in a timely fashion.
- Job creation is a macroeconomic outcome
- Zero is not the baseline for job growth
- What are today’s jobs like?
- Unemployment
- Labor force participation: structural and cyclical changes
- Beyond the unemployment rate: Other measures of labor market slack
- Recovering from the Great Recession
- The consequences of job loss and unemployment for workers and their families
Job creation is a macroeconomic outcome
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Average annual change in employment, GDP, hours, and productivity
Table 5.1 in State of Working America 12th Edition
Zero is not the baseline for job growth
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Jobs needed each month to hold steady and actual monthly job growth
Figure 5A in State of Working America 12th Edition
What are today’s jobs like?
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Distribution of employment, by industry, selected years, 1979–2011 (and 2020 projections)
Figure 5B in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Job gains, losses, and net employment change, by firm size
Figure 5D in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Distribution of employment, by occupation, selected years,1989–2011
Figure 5E in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Good jobs as a share of total employment, all workers and by gender, and output per worker, selected years
Figure 5F in State of Working America 12th Edition
Unemployment
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Unemployment rate (actual and holding age distribution constant)
Figure 5H in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Unemployment rate, by education and race and ethnicity
Table 5.3 in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Unemployment rates of foreign-born and native-born workers
Figure 5J in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Share of unemployed people with unemployment insurance benefits
Figure 5K in State of Working America 12th Edition
Labor force participation: structural and cyclical changes
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Labor force participation rate, by age and gender
Figure 5L in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Decline in the labor force participation rate from 1989 to 2011 and its possible effect on the unemployment rate in 2011, by gender and age
Table 5.5 in State of Working America 12th Edition
Beyond the unemployment rate: Other measures of labor market slack
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Employment-to-population ratio, age 25–54, by gender
Figure 5M in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Long-term unemployment, by demographic group, education, and occupation
Table 5.7 in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Unemployment rate, average monthly and over-the-year
Figure 5P in State of Working America 12th Edition
Recovering from the Great Recession
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Job change since the start of each of the last four recessions
Figure 5S in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Job change since the start of each of the last four recoveries
Figure 5T in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Job change, by gender, in the Great Recession and its aftermath (Dec. 2007–Dec. 2011)
Figure 5U in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Simulated job change by gender in the Great Recession and its aftermath (Dec. 2007–Dec. 2011), controlling for industry
Figure 5V in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Unemployed workers and job openings, by industry, 2011 (in millions)
Figure 5W in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Unemployed workers, by occupation, 2007 and 2011 (in millions)
Figure 5X in State of Working America 12th Edition
The consequences of job loss and unemployment for workers and their families
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Labor force status of involuntarily displaced workers
Figure 5Z in State of Working America 12th Edition
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Average decline in weekly earnings for involuntarily displaced full-time workers who found new work
Figure 5AA in State of Working America 12th Edition
