US Employment: Age-specific patterns of recovery

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University Here's another quick cut on what's been happening over the past decade. Prior ...

US Employment relative to Population Growth

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington & Lee Univ Today's Employment Situation. Adding jobs isn't enough, because our population is ...

Radio Show: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Mike Smitka Professor of Economics, Washington and Lee University WREL Lexington (VA) is changing its format, so today is my last regular ra...

Methodology for Calculating Demographics-Corrected Normal Employment Level

reposting from my no-longer-active US and Economics blog, original was November 2012 The Great Recession entailed a huge rise in unemploymen...

Generational War: Do Older Worker Squeeze Today's Young Out of Jobs? Weekly WREL Radio Show

Click on Figures to enlarge! Figure 1 Mike Smitka I generally focus on the medium-run picture of the US labor market, the recovery process f...

The Current State of Leasing and Residual Based Financing

Ruggles, February 2015 According to the most recent Manheim Market Report, “Lease originations exceeded 3.5 million for the first time sinc...

Auto Recovery, yes ... but as for the rest

by mike smitka The US recovery continues at a snail's pace; the auto industry is doing better. The rise in the SAAR [seasonally adjusted...