The JOLTS data for August suggest a broadly stagnant labour market. Job openings were little changed in most sectors, while the private sector hiring rate and quits rates both edged down. An exception is federal government, where the decline in job openings last month will be followed by a sharp rise in separations in coming months as over 150,000 federal employees are set to leave government payrolls this week.
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