Job openings, hires, and turnover decrease in 2007

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 14-19

  Boon, Zhi ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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EID: 50149087735     PISSN: 00981818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (5)

1. James Marschall Borbely, "Household survey indicators weaken in 2007," Monthly Labor Review, March 2008, pp. 3-18; on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art1full.pdf (visited May 15, 2008).
2. Robyn J. Richards, "Payroll employment in 2007: job growth slows," Monthly Labor Review, March 2008, pp. 19-31; on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art2full.pdf (visited May 15, 2008).
3. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides measures of job openings, hires, and separations on a monthly basis, by industry and region, from December 2000 forward, JOLTS is a monthly survey of approximately 16,000 nonfarm business establishments and is benchmarked to the BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey. Job openings are measured as the number of positions open at an establishment on the last business day of the reference month. Hires and separations are measured as the number of additions and subtractions from an establishment's payroll for the entire month. Data by type of separation are also available and consist of quits (voluntary separations), layoffs and discharges (involuntary separations), and other separations (such as retirements, transfers, and death).
4. Kelly Evans, "Slower Hiring, Not Layoffs, Hurts Labor Market," Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13,2008; on the Internet at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120285948548463683.html (visited May 15, 2008).
5. Kelly A. Clark. "The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey: what initial data show," Monthly Labor Review, November 2004, pp. 14-23; on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2004/11/ art2full.pdf (visited May 15, 2008).