Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Monday, August 28, 2006

Payroll Employment and Household-Survey Unemployment

The household-survey unemployment rate tends to fall when the monthly establishment-survey payroll employment number is more than... it's now 130,000 jobs gained a month, and tends to rise when the monthly establishment-survey payroll employment number is less than 130,000 jobs gained a month.

Figure updated to cover 1981:1 to 2006:7.

(Since 2000:1, the estimated intercept has risen to 166,000--but is very imprecisely estimated.)

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