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August 2011

Job openings and hires show little postrecession improvement

Katherine Klemmer, Robert Lazaneo

JOLTS data show only modest labor market gains since the end of the 2007–2009 recession; the job openings and hires levels have been rising since mid-2009 but, at the end of 2010, were well below their prerecession levels.

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