Economy

Employment Growth Has Flatlined (If We’re Optimistic)

Official vs. Implied Preliminary, Powell conjecture to preliminary, Early Benchmark, CPS adjusted to NFP concept, and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.

Figure 1: Official nonfarm payroll employment (black), implied preliminary benchmark (blue), Powell conjecture applied to implied preliminary benchmark (violet), implied early benchmark (tan), CPS employment adjusted to NFP concept, smoothed population controls, 3 month centered moving average (green), QCEW seasonally adjusted by author using X-13 in logs (green), all in 000’s. Source: BLS and ADP via FRED, BLS, Philadelphia Fed, and author’s calculations.

 


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