Friday, May 06, 2011
Tweet[IWS] BLS: HOW LONG BEFORE THE UNEMPLOYED FIND JOBS OR QUIT LOOKING? [5 May 2011]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Issues in Labor Statistics
Summary 11-1/May 2011
How long before the unemployed find jobs or quit looking? [5 May 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils89.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
[excerpt]
This brief report presents estimates of the length of time someone is unemployed before finding a job or before giving up searching for work. These measures were derived from the CPS labor force status flow data, which capture the extent to which the unemployed find jobs, leave the labor force, or stay unemployed from one month to the next.
Recently, researchers at BLS linked unemployment duration for persons jobless in one month with their labor force status in the following month. In this manner, estimates of unemployment duration were created for the unemployed who became employed in the subsequent month, as well as for the unemployed who quit looking for work and left the labor force.
Includes CHARTS & TABLES….
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