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    Young Adult and Prime Age Labor Force Participation Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels While Retirements Surge

      As the Federal Reserve seeks to tame inflation, the labor shortage exacerbated by the pandemic continues to keep unemployment rates low and is likely slowing the deceleration in inflation. A key...
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    Economic Impact: Weaker Labor Market for College Grads this Year, but Higher Wages

    This article was originally published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on May 8, 2023.  College and high school seniors graduating this year will be entering a weaker labor market than last year’s...
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    Military Exits Fill Talent Supply Gaps

    Exiting military personnel are an important but often overlooked contributor to a region’s talent pool. These individuals are not always a large piece of a region’s overall labor pool, but they...
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    The Value of Job Ads Data in the Location Decision

    This article was originally published in Area Development Magazine in Q1 2023.  Job ads are an important tool for understanding the labor market at a prospective location. Individual job ads — as...
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    Economic Impact: Signs of a Slowdown? Watch the Job Market, Which is Slowing Down

    This article was originally published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on March 6, 2023.  Given the strength of the labor market and expectations by some for a recession in the later part of 2023,...
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    An Update on the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women in the Workforce

    A lot has changed since our first blog on this topic in late 2021, and newly released data shed additional light on the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female employment and its continued...
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    Preliminary Wages

    JobsEQ now includes preliminary estimates for occupation wages in order to provide a more timely compensation data set. These data build upon the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) OEWS[1] data set...
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    2022 Job Ad Trends

    What trended in the workforce in 2022 and what does that hold for 2023? This article explores that question using the RTI[1] jobs ad dataset from JobsEQ.   The Overall Market     New online job ad...
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    Economic Impact: Is a recession in the forecast for 2023? Yield curve says yes

    This article was originally published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on January 8, 2023.  Recessions are hard to predict, but many observers are forecasting one for 2023. I’m in that camp as well....
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