Nonfarm Payroll Employment Vs. Trend, Pre-COVID-19
Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment (blue), deterministic trend estimated 2013M01-2017M01 (brown), both on log scale. Source: BLS and author’s calculations.
Figure 2: Nonfarm payroll employment (blue), stochastic trend estimated 2013M01-2017M01 (brown), both on log scale. Source: BLS and author’s calculations.
The above graphs are useful if you thought everything was hunky-dory employment-wise, even before the pandemic hit.
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