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Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)
Macro & the Fed
JOLTS is a monthly BLS survey measuring job openings, hires and separations in the US, with quits and layoffs reported separately.
It runs about a month behind the nonfarm payrolls report. The ratio of job openings to unemployed people shows how tight the labor market is. Rising quits are read as workers feeling confident they can find a new job easily.
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