Industry job growth in 2021 is well predicted by earlier COVID-19 losses

Industry job growth in 2021 is well predicted by earlier COVID-19 losses

Note: The R-squared for the trend line is 0.91. There are 28 observations—one for production/nonsupervisory workers and one for nonproduction/supervisory workers in each of the 14 major private-sector industries. Employment for nonproduction/supervisory workers in an industry is simply the difference in employment between all workers in the industry and production/nonsupervisory workers in the industry.

Source: Authors’ analysis of data from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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