Employment up, unemployment stable in the first half of 1986, (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, August 1986

Employment up, unemployment
stable in the first half of 1986

Susan E. Shank
Economist, Division of Employment and Unemployment Analysis, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Moderate job growth continued, but only in the service-producing sector and in construction; the level and rate of unemployment were about unchanged, as employment increases matched labor force expansion.

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