Shirin
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Shirin
@smohamm1.bsky.social
Keynesian Economist
SAIS-Johns Hopkins 2012
Paris School of Economics 2024
Digging a bit deeper, foreign-born women (followed by foreign-born men) driving growth in US labor force since 2007 (data sourced from BLS)
February 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
February 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Labor force participation in the US has been and remains on a downward trend (hence the lower-than-many-expected unemployment rate during the latest rate hike cycle) - there’s a smaller supply of labor for employers to pool from.
February 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM