unemployment

It seems we have a sort of natural economic experiment in progress due to the election results in four US states that voted to raise the minimum wage (not taking immediate effect though). It will, however take at least a year, and probably more to really see if there is any effect on...

Linky. Who came up with this nonsense?

OK, the numbers came out yesterday for jobless claims for the week before Thanksgiving --- 407,000 (seasonally adjusted). A huge drop from the previous week, 34,000 less. But wait --- the non-adjusted data shows that there were in fact 52,500 more people filing this week than the previous week...

The Slate Jobs Map This is a pretty neat tool for visualizing where in America jobs have been lost or gained in America over the last 3 years. Watch the map turn from mostly blue to massive amounts of red almost everywhere and then back to some blue mixed with red and finally it's starting to...

Economists are predicting a big gain in jobs this month. I hope they are correct. The official number is to be announced in a few hours at 8:30 EDT. Pretty wide range of estimates there. Anything over 500 K would be huge IMO. Last month's numbers (290,000). The median forecast seems a bit...

I rarely post in this subforum, but I thought this was interesting and wanted to share. I am not even 100% that it belongs in this subforum, but I wasn't sure exactly where to put it. Anyways, after hearing Obama's State of the Union address and his mention of unemployment, I found this video...

Can someone please explain the reasoning behind using numbers for Jobless Claims that are "Seasonally Adjusted" ? ... and just what exactly that means? For example, the most recent week of seasonally adjusted (SA) jobless claims showed a decrease in claims, but the non-seasonally adjusted (NSA)...

Seems that, in Virginia, tax-exempt status really isn't all that it's cracked up to be: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/18/No-benefits-for-laid-off-religious-workers/UPI-95691242688977/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMJVXt09E Senile, or simply more hopelessly out of her increasingly limited depth than Paula Abdul at a Boolean algebra seminar? You make the call.:boggled:

Japan Heads for Worst Postwar Slump as Output Tumbles 1) Does the unemployment rate itself matter less than the direction its headed? 2) Most countries would love to have an unemployment rate of 5%, right? 3) I have yet to notice any visible signs of a struggling economy in the Tokyo area. No...

The new unemployment numbers came out recently for November of this year (2008) at 6.7%. But is that the real unemployment? ... is that a good picture of what's out there overall? It turns out that this number is classified as U3 in government statistics. There are other numbers you may not be...

Won't this merely cause everyone else to want more money so that they can keep ahead of minimum wage earners wages by the same percentage? And won't this then defeat the purpose of the wage hike? And won't this just merely cause everything we buy to require more cash? If someone like me...

It has always seemed relatively obvious to me that "eventually," technology will outclass humans in every possible human endeavor. (And by always, I mean since I was a little kid.) This is because it's certainly possible (worst case scenario, we can simply reverse engineer how humans do it and...

Is this real or a distortion? It basically says that a 25 year old woman in Berlin faces having her unemployment benefits cut unless she agrees to take a job as a prostitute. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml

Only many of the jobs which went overseas were degreed positions. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_03172004 Do I need another degree Mr. President?

You be the judge: So after all these years of people saying that minimum wage "causes" unemployment, does anyone have any proof of that, or is it all just right-wing psycho theory? Using the graph above, can anyone backup the assertion?

This is my first stab at a middlingly simple economic analysis, so bear with me. Humans in general are risk-averse; this is why insurance industry exists. The expected (average) outcome of a risky situation being the same as the expected out come of a non-risky situation (i.e. 50/50 chance of...