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Labor Market Seasonality — Clarity Today

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Labor Market Seasonality

Recurring within-year patterns in job postings, applications, and hires that repeat across calendar months largely independently of the business cycle, and the statistical adjustments economists use to remove them.

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LinkedIn's seasonality data prices September as the year's most crowded month to post a job

Postings in the US run 14% above March in September, and applications do not follow. Employers are bidding into the thinnest applicant flow of the year in a month when payrolls grew 162,000 and revisions added another 55,000.

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Adoption: Insufficient
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