I'm hiring a Senior Regional Economist to join our dynamic econ research team at the Massachusetts Exec Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Let me know if you have any questions or candidates! #Econsky #rstats massanf.taleo.net/careersectio...

Does anybody have recommended reading on workflows for managing multiple large #rstats projects in a monorepo?

Need a U.S. geographic crosswalk? U Missouri's got you covered. Great resource I didn't know about.
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New Employment Research newsletter available for free download, with articles from Ezra Golberstein, Irina Zainullina, @aaronsojourner.org, and Mark A. Sander; and from Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lasen.
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#econsky I have a question in honor of numbers day. Is anyone seeing anything strange in the CES seasonal adjustment model? I noticed last month that the noise in seasonally adjusted government employment in MA is much greater than it was pre-pandemic. It doesn't even look seasonally adj.

"We use pre-Bartik joining bluesky share x national growth in Bartik user to construct a Bartik-Bartik IV."

Black workers narrowed differences in employment with white workers during the pandemic recovery, our @aaronsojourner.bsky.social and EPI's Valerie Wilson write. But Black workers are twice as likely as white workers to be stuck in job search mode, rather than earning, at any point in time.
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Only a footnote in the piece, but epop among people with disabilities seems more responsive to labor market tightness than epop among people without disabilities, both since the acute period of the pandemic ended and late in the pre-pandemic expansion. www.briefingbook.info/p/disability...

Excited to have this paper in print! "The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants"

It is now old enough that it is already time to update the results...