Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

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Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

A survey published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics each month on the state of the American job market. It collects and disseminates data on job openings, recruitment activity, hires and layoffs, and other criteria in several different sectors. JOLTS are used along with the Help Wanted Index to show whether the number of jobs is growing or shrinking at a given time.

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Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, May 2006.

Job openings and labor turnover

Source: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey and Current Employment Statistics survey, U.S.

Job openings continue to rise in 2013

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) is a monthly survey that produces data on job openings, hires, and separations.

Conference report: JOLTS symposium

Data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) reflect the continued impact that the recession which began in December 2007 (according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (1)) has had on the demand for labor and worker flows.

Job openings, hires, and separations fall during the recession: JOLTS data indicate record-low levels of job openings, hires, and separations in 2009, as well as a record-high number of layoffs and discharges

(2) Data from the job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) (3) also reflect a labor market slowdown in 2007, as job openings--a measure of labor demand--and hires and separations--measures of worker flows--decreased over the year.

Job openings, hires, and turnover decrease in 2007

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) is an establishment survey that publishes monthly data on job openings, as well as monthly and annual data on hires and separations, by major industry and region.

Studying the labor market using BLS labor dynamics data

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) was introduced to readers of this Review in our December 2001 issue.

The November review

(2) For additional information about the development of the program, see Kelly Clark and Rosemary Hyson, "New tools for labor market analysis: the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey," Monthly Labor Review, December 2001, pp.

The Job openings and labor turnover survey: what initial data show: early results from these new data series show trends that are in line with other surveys, both private industry and government, and allow for a more complete picture of the labor market

Hall uses data from the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) to test the model against labor force developments in 2001 and 2002.

Theory and new measures

The Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank included in their April 2003 Economic Trends bulletin an analysis of the new data from the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) that illustrated that fact.

Uncertainty and labor turnover. (Precis)

A new Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) was introduced in July 2002 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

JOLTS starts. (Labor Month in Review)

The BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, completes the labor market picture by collecting monthly data from businesses to measure unmet labor demand and job turnover.

New tools for labor market analysis: JOLTS: as a single, direct source for data on job openings, hires, and separations, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) should be a useful indicator of the demand for labor in the U.S. labor market and of other economic conditions. (Job Openings and Labor Turnover)