March 21, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Job leavers larger share of unemployed
The level of
unemployment declined for almost every reason in 1999. The sole exception
was an increase in the number of persons unemployed as a result of leaving
their jobs voluntarily. As a result, the share of the unemployed made up
of job leavers rose by one and one-half percentage points to 13.3 percent.
![Reasons for unemployment, percent distributions, 1998 and 1999](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925071645im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Mar/wk3/art02.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
There were slightly fewer unemployed persons on temporary layoff, but
their share of total unemployment still rose by half a percentage point to
14.4 percent.
Both numbers and shares of the unemployed declined for permanent job losers,
for those who completed temporary jobs, and for new entrants to the labor force. The number of
unemployed reentrants edged down, while their share of the unemployed was
little changed.
These data are a product of the Current
Population Survey. For more annual
average data on unemployment, see the Table
28 of the January 2000 issue of Employment
and Earnings. You can access additional pre-formatted tables from Employment
and Earnings through the Current
Labor Statistics button on the Monthly
Labor Review homepage.
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