Mark Rembert

I'm hiring a Senior Regional Economist to join our dynamic econ research team at the Massachusetts Exec Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Let me know if you have any questions or candidates! #Econsky #rstats massanf.taleo.net/careersectio...

1000% yes. With the tidycensus close behind.

Does anybody have recommended reading on workflows for managing multiple large #rstats projects in a monorepo?

Need a U.S. geographic crosswalk? U Missouri's got you covered. Great resource I didn't know about.
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New Employment Research newsletter available for free download, with articles from Ezra Golberstein, Irina Zainullina, @aaronsojourner.org, and Mark A. Sander; and from Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lasen.
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I don't blame the guy. One of the most delicious pizzas I've ever had (I still fantasize about it) was from Cassano's found in the Dayton, Ohio area which was known for liberally salting the bottom of the crust. I've never come across anything else that compares.

This is awesome.

These aren't trivial changes in employment. Last month, the preliminary gov employment estimates were down 10,000 compared to August, which drove a decline in top line employment in the state. I haven't had a chance to look at other industries or states, but curious if anyone else noticed issues.

Graph of seasonally adjusted government employment in Massachusetts

#econsky I have a question in honor of numbers day. Is anyone seeing anything strange in the CES seasonal adjustment model? I noticed last month that the noise in seasonally adjusted government employment in MA is much greater than it was pre-pandemic. It doesn't even look seasonally adj.

"We use pre-Bartik joining bluesky share x national growth in Bartik user to construct a Bartik-Bartik IV."

Is Black Employment Catching Up with White Employment? | Econofact The share of white Americans who are employed has been consistently larger than the share of Black Americans with paid jobs. But the gap has narrowed of late.

Black workers narrowed differences in employment with white workers during the pandemic recovery, our @aaronsojourner.bsky.social and EPI's Valerie Wilson write. But Black workers are twice as likely as white workers to be stuck in job search mode, rather than earning, at any point in time.
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This is really great! Thanks for sharing. We've been seeing the same trend in MA, particularly among prime age workers. One other element that seems to be factor here is occupational concentration. Black workers are overrepresented in healthcare in MA, which has had a very tight labor market.

Only a footnote in the piece, but epop among people with disabilities seems more responsive to labor market tightness than epop among people without disabilities, both since the acute period of the pandemic ended and late in the pre-pandemic expansion. www.briefingbook.info/p/disability...

Title and abstract of "The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants", published in the Journal of Human Resources

Excited to have this paper in print! "The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post-Great Recession Entrants"

It is now old enough that it is already time to update the results...