Thursday, April 7, 2011

Employment Growth After Recessions | Graphic Economics

 

Employment Growth After Recessions
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While the recent acceleration in job growth is encouraging, it is still an extremely weak recovery from a downturn as severe as we have just experienced. Based on the experience of the last two severe recessions, 1974-75 and 1981-82, we should be expecting job growth in the range of 400,000 a month. Instead, we are still seeing a rate of job growth that is below the 250,000-a-month average from the 90s.

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Employment Growth After Recessions | Graphic Economics

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