Sorry all, I'm multitasking and didn't finish this thought. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Household vs. payroll employment
> > There are a few logica possibilities that I can think of for the > discrepency to exist. > > 1) There has been a great growth in workers in off the books jobs, with roughly the same porportions of reporting. > > 2) There has been a great growth in people reporting their off the books > jobs. > > 3) There has been a great drop in second jobs, which affect the payroll > figures, but not the household figures. 4) The estimation of the growth in population since 2000 has been overdone. It appears that the Federal Reserve is looking at #4 as the most likely. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
