Employment Archive:

From Time magazine.

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One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.

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Eleven indicator rankings, based on Forbes research.

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I don’t think I buy this argument – it glosses over some significant income distribution and labor mobility issues, which are only partly discussed at the bottom.

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We’ve seen this data before, but this presentation is clearer in some ways.

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Updated tools from Google to design your own gapminder type maps, graphs, and animations. Has been updated with recent World Bank, OECD, and other datasets. (via).

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A comparative look at the scale.

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Nice collection of employment charts, updated monthly.

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I’ve just started playing with this new online interactive visualization tool, but it looks fantastic.

Here are some examples of what other people have produced with it:

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Race, and sex income gaps in the USA. (via)

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Comparison of metropolitan areas by wealth.

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Official retirement ages have failed to keep pace with rising life expectancy, making pensions increasingly unaffordable. In practice many people in the rich-world OECD countries retire several years early, which lets them enjoy, on average, some 19 years in retirement before death.

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One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.

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