Chapter 4 – Jobs: Diminished expectations
Figure 4A: Labor force and total nonfarm employment, 1979-2008
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Figure 4B: Number of months to regain peak-level employment after a recession, current and prior
business cycles
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Figure 4C: Annualized peak-to-peak growth in employment, 1960-2007
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Figure 4D: Gross job gains and losses, 1990q2-2007q3
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Figure 4E: Peak-to-peak annual growth rates by industry, 1979-2007
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Figure 4F: Good jobs as percent of total employment
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Figure 4G: Unemployment rate and its trend, January 1948-April 2008
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Table 4.1: Labor force share and unemployment rate by age category, 1980q1-2007q4
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Figure 4H: Actual and simulated unemployment rate, Jan. 1980-April 2008
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Table 4.2: Unemployment rates, 1969-2007
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Table 4.3: Percentage-point change in unemployment rates between business cycle peaks
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Table 4.4: Unemployment rates by gender, race, and educational status (25 years or older), 1992-2007
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Figure 4I: Unemployment rates of foreign-born and native-born workers, 1994-2007
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Figure 4J: Long-term unemployment as a share of total unemployment, and the unemployment rate, 1968-2008
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Figure K: Unemployment and the 2000s recovery period
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Table 4.5: Shares of unemployment and long-term unemployment, 2000 and 2007
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Table 4.6: Underemployment, 2000-07 (in thousands)
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Figure 4L: Labor force participation rates, 1973-2008q1
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Figure 4M: Annual labor force participation rate for college graduates (age 25-34), 1979-2007
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Figure 4N: Actual and simulated unemployment rates (age 25-54), 1979-2007
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Figure 4O: Employment rates (age 25-54), 1973-2008q1
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Figure 4P: Peak-to-peak change in employment rate (age 25-54)
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Figure 4Q: Peak-to-peak change in employment rates by race and ethnicity, 1979-2007
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Figure 4R: Annual employment rates of workers 55 years and older, 1973-2007
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Table 4.7: Nonstandard workers in the U.S. workforce, 2005
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Figure 4S: Access to job-based retirement plan by work arrangement, 2005
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Figure 4T: Part-time status, as a share of total employment, 1973-2008
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Figure 4U: Employment in temporary help industry as share of non-farm employment, 1990-2008
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Table 4.8: Average years of job tenure by age, gender, and education, 1973-2006
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Table 4.9: Share of employed workers in long-term jobs by age, gender, and education, 1973-2006
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Figure 4V: Labor force status post-displacement, 1981-2005
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Figure 4W: Average dec line in weekly earnings for displaced full-time workers who
find new full-time work, 1981-2005
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Insert A: Documentation and Methodology, Appendices A and B, Table notes, Figure notes, Bibliography [download PDF]
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