A discrepancy occurred from 2010 onwards as layoffs went down. |
=> Change in amount of workers in the economy (blue chart) = job hires (red chart) – layoffs
A discrepancy occurred from 2010 onwards as layoffs went down. |
=> Change in amount of workers in the economy (blue chart) = job hires (red chart) – layoffs
As you can see here, the charts do match with each other and it looks like the JOLTS data is more accurate than the NFP data (which gets revised a lot). This correlation isn’t a very important one, but you can use the JOLTS data to predict the NFP data and with NFP data, you can predict the trend of the unemployment rate.
This brings me to this more interesting chart.
Here you can see the change in NFP data versus the change in unemployment rate. As you can see, whenever the NFP changes to the downside (less people get jobs), the unemployment rate of change edges upwards.
So, the key is to watch these JOLTS and NFP data and predict the curve of the unemployment rate.