Comments on: Where (and Why) the Job Openings Are

By: rs

rs — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:53:26 +0000

thought you all might find this dynamic map interesting. It shows the geography of unemployment by county Jan07 – current.

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

By: Kris Hintz

Kris Hintz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:57:26 +0000

I am wondering when kids make a college location decision they are also (unwittingly) making a decision about where they will likely get their first job as young single professionals. Did you, or your kids, stay and work where you/they went to college? What impact did graduate school have on where you ultimately chose to live?

See my post http://positionu4college.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/choosing-colleges-in-cool-metro-areas/

By: nlp

nlp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:56 +0000

Hello,

In the Netherlands it is going pretty well now. We have most of the crisis behind us and we are going forward now.

By: JH

JH — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:13:23 +0000

I concur with Wendy’s comment on the government sector – what happens to the correlations when this is adjusted for?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:29 +0000

Many of these jobs seem to be “effects” of a diverse economy, which like a diverse investment portfolio provides some balance of risk.

What you call creative class employment is actually a rather diverse range of positions, some or many of which support other areas of the economy. In Washington DC they support a government sector.

Key to employment rebound may be economic diversity in terms of regional “exports” — if automotive manufacturing is down, but the region also exports video game software, financial management, insurance services as well as has tourism (which is technically an export), and music exports there is a much greater likelihood that one of these industries will be doing okay while manufacturing automobiles is failing.

By: sm2

sm2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:37:33 +0000

What about entrepreneurship levels and churn rates?