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FRED gets employment data from DOL, which keeps down revising its lofty employment estimates. Additionally not all job postings reflect actual openings. The com
by qwertyuiop_ 2y ago
FRED gets employment data from DOL, which keeps down revising its lofty employment estimates. Additionally not all job postings reflect actual openings. The companies post tailored job postings to help their employees who are applying for green cards. Others just post to influence the perception of stock analysts.
- tptacek 2y agoLook at the graph of total software engineering employment over the last 20 years and tell me the magnitude of both the market shift and the measurement error that would be required to justify the argument upthread.
- kasey_junk 2y agoBLS doesn’t use job postings for CES.