Tuesday, October 7, 2008

More evidence of tightening labour markets

I think we can see a clear trend in the number of unfilled vacancies. Since the beginning of the year, the trend is definitely downwards. It is more evidence of an approaching recession.

2 comments:

  1. Excuse the predictable question, but what happens when you subtract all those worthless public sector jobs.

    For a long time the US BLS numbers have been massaged by creating makework government jobs and we know Brown isn't above that.

    Nick

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  2. I always use this site to check the state of the IT jobs market. It's very boom and bust and seems to follow the FTSE100:

    http://www.jobstats.co.uk/

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