Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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this metric has decoupled from actual job creation.
these "openings" seem to be nothing of the sort. either there is a huge skills mismatch, pervasive labor immobility, or these "openings" are not real and are just employers seeing who is out looking for a job.
this uptrend has not flowed through to actual hiring for ages now. sure, there is some lag, but not this much.
this chart says it all:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/11/sluggish-growth-and-payroll-employment.html
it's going to be years at this rate before we get back to full employment in what has already been the slowest recovery since ww2.
(and note that this is u3, use u6 and this looks much worse.)
GLOOMBERG crew WON'T report this.
From the BLS Survey report:
"The number of quits (not seasonally adjusted) in September 2011 increased from 12 months earlier for total nonfarm and total private and was essentially unchanged for government."
People are leaving jobs in the private sector at higher rates But not in government. Duh, government jobs and benefits are better than private (generally), so, why leave until retirement?
Good news...just hope these trend can continue.
Buddy is right. Who would quit a US uniformed federal job when you can retire after 20 years with full retirement benefits (a million-dollar package) and unlimited medical care?
these "openings" seem to be nothing of the sort. either there is a huge skills mismatch, pervasive labor immobility, or these "openings" are not real and are just employers seeing who is out looking for a job.
I have a lot of chats with mining companies every year. Most of them want to hire competent people at high salaries but can't get the employees that they need. Many machine shops, specialty manufacturers, oil services companies, etc., have exactly the same problems. At the same time as these jobs remain open there is a surplus of graduates in communications, general business, accounting, art history, administration, etc.
Though job openings are higher, the number of unemployed per job is still very high at 4.2 - more than 3x the 2007 figure.
On the plus side, what it suggests is that labor unit costs should remain constrained leading to high profit margins (see chart - measured here as output prices less unit labor costs), moderate inflation and higher business investment.
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these "openings" seem to be nothing of the sort. either there is a huge skills mismatch
Skills mismatches don't exist, only the unwillingness of an employer to train the people they have available.
Skills mismatches don't exist, only the unwillingness of an employer to train the people they have available.
Nonsense. If I need a machinist now I don't have the time to train a new employee to become one only to lose him to a competitor later. The problem in the US is that many people do not have marketable skills. Who would have guessed that the BA in gender politics would not be very useful to employers.
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