Employment surveys are telling the same (sad) story

Mark Schweitzer and Guhan Venkatu

Economic Commentary, 2004, issue May

Abstract: Two government surveys are used to gather information about employment in the U.S. economy, but the employment levels calculated from each seem to provide conflicting pictures of the labor market. The surveys are very different, but when the differences are taken into account and the survey results are compared with their respective business-cycle patterns, the conflict disappears.

Keywords: Employment (Economic theory); Labor market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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