What once could be viewed as distinguishing labor market characteristics are less distinctive and may signal problems to some businesses.
We need a new way to talk about labor markets in North Dakota
ND July Unemployment Rate
Unemployment is not a useful policy metric in North Dakota, though it gets mentioned often. I look at the recent data, map it, and discuss.
ND County Unemployment Rates, May 2019
I take a look at the incredibly low (in fact too low) rate of unemployment in ND and the recent changes.
North Dakota Unemployment Rate, April 2019
I once again argue that the unemployment rate in North Dakota is too low.
Unemployment and the Grand Forks Flood
JT and I are devoting a portion of my weekly appearance to the Grand Forks Flood of 1997, and the business and economic consequences of the event. The consequences of some events are best understood with the perspective of time, and natural disasters are clearly this type of event. For today’s post I chose to look at unemployment, but in a slightly different way.