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Greenstone, Michael; Looney, Adam – Hamilton Project, 2011
The January employment numbers, released today by the U.S. Department of Labor, present mixed evidence about the state of the labor market. While the unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent, payrolls were just better than flat, increasing by only 36,000 jobs last month. Much attention is given to the official unemployment rate, which is certainly…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Labor, Labor Market
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Watanabe, Satoshi P. – Higher Education Policy, 2003
This article empirically examines the spread of higher education in Japan and the resulting changes in labor quality in the last two decades. This study uses the Divisia index numbers to measure the labor quality and quality-adjusted labor supply. It points out that quality might have declined rapidly in the recent past among higher educated…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Higher Education, Two Year Colleges, Labor Market