In comparison the job market has been, as I said, relatively strong.
Pascal Michaillat, an economist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, likes to measure the tightness of the job market by comparing the number of job vacancies with the number of unemployed people.
The labor market is efficient, he contends, when the numbers are equal — that is, when the ratio of vacancies to unemployed is exactly 1.
One scenario is that the labor market remains tight for longer than it would otherwise, but eventually cracks.
In fact, there are already some signs of cracking in the labor market.
Persons:
payrolls, Pascal Michaillat, ”, David Rosenberg
Organizations:
Economic, of Labor Statistics, University of California, Rosenberg Research
Locations:
Santa Cruz, Toronto