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The reason for higher weekly hours in trucking and temporary employment is obviously structural unemployment since employers cannot find skilled workers for these jobs and were forced to increase hours...
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The 0.4% fall in work hours was noted by FT soon after the jobs report. Here is the link: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2bdd2a18-b3fe-11e2-b5a5-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2SYruPccz (Reading between the...
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Dean: I was there early Friday as well. Dark side to jobs report: Big drop in hours worked. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dark-side-to-jobs-report-big-drop-in-hours-worked-2013-05-03 - Rex
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If employers cannot fine skilled workers for jobs because of structural reasons, where are the temporary workers coming from? - jjmsan
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Currently the kind of health care provided by a lot of retail types is high deductible, low premuim. I.e., the perfect fit for healthy young folks in entry level jobs. It is basically catastrophic...
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The reason firms of 50 employees provide health insurance of some kind to their employees is that they are large enough to get the better deals that small employers (fewer than 25 employees) can't get....
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I'm pretty sure the second round of commentary from most bank economists mentioned the drop in hours. The correct thing to have written would have been that "just about everybody with any experience in...
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[b]PeonInChief[/b], IIRC from my short years in a public policy consulting firm, it's also because smaller firms tend towards cheaper labor, so there's less room to provide benefits. - liberal
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as a general recent trend, with both truck and temp hours rising, how much of the "gains" are the result of the growth of amazon, apple, ebay, etc. - NWsteve
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@ DV - anything that FT reports is unlikely to be seen by the vast majority of people, since to even view that you have to register & you're pestered with a subscription sales pitch before you can...
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