Study Paper: Materials Prepared in Connection with the Study of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels, for the Consideration by the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Issue 23U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - Labor |
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15 weeks 27 or Longer age and sex age group areas of substantial BUREAU OF LABOR characteristics Chronic Labor Surplus chronically depressed areas class 1 areas Class 3 Total class 3B Class Class Class classified Department of Labor differences duration of unemployment Employment Security force participation rates frictional unemployment higher proportion highest in class insured unemployed insured unemployment jobless Joint Economic Committee labor force participation labor force rates labor force survey labor market area LABOR STATISTICS Labor Surplus Areas major labor market Manufacturing market area class Market Area Grouping monthly labor force MRLF data MRLF sample Nondurable Nonwhite Number of unemployed Percent distribution thousands percent in class ployment sampling errors Semiskilled separate data spells of insured spring 1959 Based spring of 1959 substantial labor surplus tabulated type of area U.S. Department unem unemployed in chronically unemployed in class unemployed thousands Unemployment in areas unemployment insurance Unemployment rate percent worker rates
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Page 14 - Class 1. Class 2. Class 3. Class 1. Class 2. Class 3. Class 4.
Page 3 - If the rate of unemployment in these areas could have been reduced to the national average, the jobless total would have been roughly a quarter of a million lower at that time.
Page 22 - ... the following 30 days (and were not in school during the survey week) or (6) who would have been looking for work except that they were temporarily ill or believed no work was available in their line of work in the community. TABLE 1. — Standard error of level of monthly estimates [In thousands] Size of estimate Both sexes Male Female Total or white Nonwhite Total or white Nonwhite Total or white Nonwhite 10 5 11 15 24 34...
Page 1 - Unemployment that stems from these causes is usually concentrated geographically, thus affecting the jobs and incomes of persons not immediately connected with the distressed industry. As a result, as we have seen, entire areas are dragged into a state of economic decline. In addition to the relatively industrialized areas both large and small, information flowing into this Department as part of the normal operations of our Federal-State employment security programs indicates that...
Page 1 - ... employment opportunities for several years, labor force growth may be slow in relation to the increase in population, and concealed unemployment exists. Such a tendency in recent years is indicated in chart 6-2 ; the actual labor force in 1959 is about 700,000 persons below the long-term trend. * Study paper No. 6, "The Extent and Nature of Frictional Unemployment, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nov.
Page 25 - U nder 25 years 25 to 34 years 45 to 54 years 65 years and over Not reporting age GEORGIA All farm operators.
Page 2 - ... unemployment during the recession, but recovery thereafter. Class 3 — Areas of either chronic labor surplus, or which became areas of substantial labor surplus during the recent recession and had not recovered as of the spring of 1959. These areas were still classed as D, E, or F in May 1959.3 ' US Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, "Chronic Labor Surplus Areas, Experience and Outlook,