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September 2010

Evaluating the 1996-2006 employment projections

Ian D. Wyatt

On the whole, the BLS 1996–2006 employment projections outperformed alternative naïve models, but not projecting the housing bubble or the rise in oil prices did cause some inaccuracies in the projections.

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