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Mark Thoma and Catherine Rampell point to a new study that argues that the age (not the size) of a business is the key factor in their employment growth.

Welcome to EMSI’s first weekly review of the news, links of note, and data points from last week.

We wrote about the labor market trends for law-related jobs last week, and now The Wall Street Journal reports that indications point to an improving market for lawyers — at least among Columbia students.

Seventy-six percent of the government job losses are due to federal job losses, which are mostly jobs “lost” as the Census winds down. But the focus should be on the state and local governments — Catherine Rampell and Conor Dougherty both have great articles how the new employment numbers are shaping up for these employers.

Actually, maybe we should call this the chart of the past few years. From the New York Times’ Economix blog, this comes after the latest jobs report that showed a loss of 131,000 net jobs in the U.S. economy.

The L.A. Times’s Greenspace blog points out that the promise of adding green jobs to the economy was not enough to pass any kind of climate bill, and collects some further points on where the bill went wrong.

MinnPost, an independent Minnesota news website, recently highlighted a high school dropout model developed by EMSI that estimates the economic impacts of halving the dropout rate of minority students. The model was made in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education.

If Prakash Loungani is right, average housing prices in the US have not reached bottom. The IMF economist presented at the National Economists Club on the subject, “More Room to Fall? Prospects for House Prices In Major Economies,” on Thursday.

Biomedical engineers, network systems analysts, financial examiners — these are all expected to be hot jobs in eight years according to the Department of Labor’s projections. But as any workforce or education practitioner knows, it’s hard to say which jobs will be performing strongly 18 months from now, let alone in 2018.

In its latest issue, The Economist writes about industry clusters and cities becoming so popular that they get too expensive for some people’s taste. All of which “spurs some brainy people—especially those with children—to migrate to places that are not quite so hot but more liveable.”