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June 21, 2022
Over the year ended in April 2022, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 129 metropolitan areas and was essentially unchanged in 260 areas. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in New York-Newark-Jersey City, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania, where employment increased 483,900, followed by Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California (employment up 333,700), and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (277,900). Full Text »
Noncompete agreements, bargaining, and wages: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
Donna Rothstein, Evan Starr
This Beyond the Numbers article will describe the unemployed people per job openings ratio and examine unemployment and job openings trends by looking at estimates at the national level from December 2000 to December 2021, and at the state and regional level from December 2017 to December 2021. National data allows users to see the relationship more clearly between labor supply and demand nationwide, while state and regional data allows for comparative analysis across state labor markets.
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