The prime-age participation rate, for one, focuses on the 25-to-54 age group cohort.
watch now"The durability of this labor market largely comes because we simply don't have the people," said Rachel Sederberg, senior economist for job analytics firm Lightcast.
They don't even come close to the Baby Boomers who have left the labor market."
Those measures include job data from alternative sources, the job openings count from the Labor Department, and the firm's own employer surveys.
The trick, said Lightcast economist Sederberg, is for the labor market to be cooling but not crashing.
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