Employment in Westthe untold…

Background In a bid to understand the social well being of the employed in US we would like to explore insights into labor market.

To acquire insights into this market we conducted a labor market assessment of the Northern Central States.

Data of 6366 employees in 2014 from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics was used to seek various influencers of the market

Research objectivesTo determine,

Assess distribution of race, gender, state and average working hours.

Job & earnings distribution among different;o Raceso Stateso Gender Years in education versus o average earningso Job acquisition o Race & Gender

Summary of research designMethodology Secondary data

Sampling Random

Sample 6366

Review & Analysis QuantitativeTiming March 2014Area of Study North-Central States, USA

Findings

State, race, gender & hours workedUsual Hours Worked

Mean 42.16831Median 40Deviation 13.27372Skewness -0.70181Minimum 0Maximum 144Count 6366

White; 88%

Black; 9%AsianP1; 2% IndEsk; 1%

Race

White Black AsianP1 IndEsk

States; 32%

States; 25%States;

23%

States; 10%

States; 9%States

Illinois Ohio MichiganWisconsin Indiana

59%

41%

Gender Balance

Male Female

Yearly earnings’ distributions

90%

7% 2% 1%

Race

White Black AsianPI IndEsk

30%

70%

Gender

Female Male

Yearly earnings’ distributions

State; 32%

State; 26%

State; 24%

State; 9%

State; 8%

State

Illinois Ohio MichiganWisconsin Indiana

32%

25%

24%

10%

9%

Sum of Usual Hours Worked

Illinois Ohio MichiganWisconsin Indiana

Race distribution across states

States

Race Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio Wisconsin

White 27.36% 8.78% 20.19% 22.46% 9.33%

Black 4.05% 0.49% 2.56% 1.99% 0.36%

AsianPI 0.86% 0.02% 0.44% 0.38% 0.13%

IndEsk 0.14% 0.11% 0.20% 0.06% 0.08%

Race and years in education

12 yrs

13 yrs

14 yrs

16 yrs

18 yrs

31.62%

20.30%

3.05%

17.15%

8.80%

Years in education

White IndEsk Black AsianPI

Gender and years in education

41%

59%

Proportion of Education

Female Male

Sum of Education (yrs)

Female 13.517Male 13.471

Relationships

 Usual Hours

WorkedEducation

(yrs.) Yearly Earnings

Usual Hours Worked 1

Education (yrs.) 0.093 1

Yearly Earnings 0.124 0.368 1

ConclusionsAverage working hours at 42.2 hours are slightly above the normal 40 hours a week.

Years spent in gaining extra skills though education programmes pays. Most employees who have spent many yrs. In education earn more. This is seen as there is a high positive correlation between years in education & yearly earnings

There is a high poverty index and expected high crime rate among Blacks, Asians & IndEsk. They are lowly represented in the US job market. This translates to poor social economic status among them.

High dependency ratio is expected among women who are under represented as well.

Inter state migration is foreseen as people will tend to move to states with high employment rates.