Evidently, the conference board has some measure of online job advertisements, available (I think) for only since 2005 or so. My RA reports that they want $20K for the data. Uh...sure. I'll see what I can do about this.
But in the meantime, I provide plots of regional Beveridge curves using JOLTS data which, unfortunately, is available only for the past decade. I do this first the conventional way, plotting vacancies against unemployment. But because I am no fan of unemployment measures (half of the flow into employment comes from out of the labor force), I also plot the BC my preferred way; that is, with vacancies plotted against the employment ratio.
David,
ReplyDeleteOT again, but I've been nosing around for other things and I happened upon employment data from the U.S. census for the 1850 - 1990 period (every decade obviously). It's from Historical Statistics of the U.S. I can't send you a link because it is password protected, but if you have some interest, I can probably package up some data for you. Or probably you have access to this database somewhere.
Prof J: We probably have access to this data at the Fed. But what did you have in mind, exactly? I don't want to make work for you, but if you have found some interesting patterns and would like me to post something on it, I would be very happy to do so!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about George's Selgin's piece about unemployment across the recession of 1873 - 76 (?). It looks like agricultural employment grew from 1870 - 1880, but there's no intra-decade data. There's all kinds of census data available actually. It's good for general trends, but you wouldn't see any year-over-year stuff.
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