Comments on: Comparison of US recessions in hours worked per capita http://barrdear.com/john/2009/06/07/comparison-of-us-recessions-in-hours-worked-per-capita/ Tue, 22 May 2012 22:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mulp http://barrdear.com/john/2009/06/07/comparison-of-us-recessions-in-hours-worked-per-capita/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 mulp Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:33:32 +0000 http://barrdear.com/john/?p=553#comment-1893 Let's say we call any employment cycle that doesn't recover fully to peak to be part of a greater recession (like the great depression spanned two gdp and employment falls and rises). So what would it look like if the 1981 recession started in 1980(1979?) and the current Great Recession started in 2000. What did they call the depression before the Great Depression? the Long Depression? Maybe fron early 2000 we are in the Long Recession that will span at least as many years as the Great Depression, if not 5-10 years more. Let’s say we call any employment cycle that doesn’t recover fully to peak to be part of a greater recession (like the great depression spanned two gdp and employment falls and rises).

So what would it look like if the 1981 recession started in 1980(1979?) and the current Great Recession started in 2000.

What did they call the depression before the Great Depression? the Long Depression? Maybe fron early 2000 we are in the Long Recession that will span at least as many years as the Great Depression, if not 5-10 years more.

]]> By: Robert Allison http://barrdear.com/john/2009/06/07/comparison-of-us-recessions-in-hours-worked-per-capita/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 Robert Allison Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:43:39 +0000 http://barrdear.com/john/?p=553#comment-1889 John - I find your graphs & analyses pretty interesting. I decided to see if I could reproduce some of your graphs, and of course, I couldn't help but to try to make a few small improvements :) Here are 3 graphs, in case you'd like to see them: In this one, I use dot-markers on the plot, which I think help users "see" where the graph is increasing/decreasing more rapidly (faster change = more distance between dots). And also I add html hover-text (hover your mouse over the dots to see the exact values). Also, I just put the year in the horizontal axis tickmarks: http://robslink.com/SAS/democd39/YoY.htm In this one, I color-code the left & right axis labels the same as the data lines, to help users more quickly know which axis goes with which line: http://robslink.com/SAS/democd39/weekly_worked.htm Similarl to the first one, I add dot-markers with html hover-text: http://robslink.com/SAS/democd39/recession.htm John – I find your graphs & analyses pretty interesting.
I decided to see if I could reproduce some of your graphs, and of course,
I couldn’t help but to try to make a few small improvements :)

Here are 3 graphs, in case you’d like to see them:

In this one, I use dot-markers on the plot, which I think help users “see” where the graph is increasing/decreasing more rapidly (faster change = more distance between dots). And also I add html hover-text (hover your mouse over the dots to see the exact values). Also, I just put the year in the horizontal axis tickmarks:

http://robslink.com/SAS/democd39/YoY.htm

In this one, I color-code the left & right axis labels the same as the data lines, to help users more quickly know which axis goes with which line:

http://robslink.com/SAS/democd39/weekly_worked.htm

Similarl to the first one, I add dot-markers with html hover-text:

http://robslink.com/SAS/democd39/recession.htm

]]> By: On the symmetry of employment contraction and recovery in US recessions | John Barrdear http://barrdear.com/john/2009/06/07/comparison-of-us-recessions-in-hours-worked-per-capita/comment-page-1/#comment-1854 On the symmetry of employment contraction and recovery in US recessions | John Barrdear Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:46:09 +0000 http://barrdear.com/john/?p=553#comment-1854 [...] couple of days ago I gave some graphs depicting movements in weekly hours worked per capita during US recessions since 1964.  Towards the end, I gave this [...] [...] couple of days ago I gave some graphs depicting movements in weekly hours worked per capita during US recessions since 1964.  Towards the end, I gave this [...]

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