It’s not surprising to see which two sectors have the most job openings, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) released today. Education and health services leads the way with an job opening rate of 3.1% while professional and business services stands at 2.5%
On the other end [...]

Curious if the number of economists have grown or declined with the economy being such a focal point? Brian Kelsey at Civic Analytics was too, and he used EMSI data to investigate.
The following graph is from his blog — his analysis showed that more than 100 economists were hired in 2009.

If you’re even more curious, [...]

After the latest employment data came out this morning, Sara Murray at the Real Time Economics blog posted the jobless figures by education level. The numbers are pretty revealing.
From January to February, the jobless rate increased for those with a high school diploma (from 11.5% to 11.9%) and those with less than a high school [...]

If you polled the average person on the street on which segment of the population makes more money — the private sector or federal employees — most would probably say the private sector. But not so according to a USA Today analysis.
Federal employees make 20% more than a private-sector workers in the same occupation, the [...]

Nimble. Responsive to the training needs of the workforce. Economic drivers for their regions. All these have been used to describe the strengths of community colleges. But let’s throw out another description:
“Potential saviors of the economy.”
That comes from University Business, which has a lengthy look at community colleges in its latest edition. The article hits [...]

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So we stumbled upon an interesting discussion that took place last month on public radio business show Marketplace regarding the cost of job creation. Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon used EMSI estimates from our fourth green jobs paper to say that it costs $200,000 of infrastructure investment to create one job.
Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio took [...]

With topics ranging from underemployment to community colleges tackling workforce development, here are some articles worth reading:

Catherine Rampell of The New York Times‘ Economix blog looks at the broader measure of unemployment, the “U-6,” which stood at 16.2% at the end of 2009. “In three states — Michigan, California and Oregon — more than a [...]

Much has been made of the declining state of U.S. manufacturing in recent years, which makes sense when you look at the remarkable drop-off in employment. But manufacturing is far from dead, according to fivethirtyeight.com.
The political site points out that productivity in the sector has increased in the last 15 years, and the decline in [...]

The following article is from North Central State College President Donald L. Plotts. Data for the piece were compiled by Tom Prendergast, NCSC’s director of institutional research and grants. The article follows this EMSI data spotlight on earnings by education levels.

It’s no secret that education correlates to income levels, but the statistics are so stark [...]