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February 1987

The employment situation during 1986:job gains continue, unemployment dips

Susan E. Shank, Steven E. Haugen

The labor market continued to improve in the fourth year of the economic recovery?employment grew and the unemployment rate edged below 7 percent; nearly all of the job increase occurred in the service-producing sector

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