Introduction As my college years are quickly becoming memories, I am beginning to think about employment and becoming employed, and what my chances are like in the current work force, after graduating of course. Becoming employed is always on the mind of college students, and with a high unemployment rate, this thought only intensifies as graduation approaches. According to tradingeconomics.com, the United States unemployment rate is currently sitting at 6.7 %, which is quite high compared to other thriving countries throughout the rest of the world. The unemployment rate is a very important number that shouldn’t evade peoples’ minds. Recently, the rate has been constantly decreasing, since 2008, but we need to keep an eye on the number in hopes of it continuing to decrease. In this study I am looking at employment and factors that can alter the chances of becoming employed. I wanted to have recent data for my study, so employment statistics would be as close to the numbers I will experience when I begin to look for a job, so I looked at data from 2008 to 2013. I will be using the CPS data provided by Ipums.org. I focused on the state of Ohio in this study, because with the amount of variables I have, looking at all the states in the United States would end up being way too large. One of my biggest fears in life right now, is this fear of not being able to get a job after I graduate college. I see a bunch of old friends from high school graduating college and simply not being able to find a job. A lot of them then take on minimum wage paying fast food jobs, which is something I cannot let myself endure. This problem of finding a job or not really got me interested in seeing who has the best chance to become employed, and who is currently being hired into the work force over others.
Introduction As my college years are quickly becoming memories, I am beginning to think about employment and becoming employed, and what my chances are like in the current work force, after graduating of course. Becoming employed is always on the mind of college students, and with a high unemployment rate, this thought only intensifies as graduation approaches. According to tradingeconomics.com, the United States unemployment rate is currently sitting at 6.7 %, which is quite high compared to other thriving countries throughout the rest of the world. The unemployment rate is a very important number that shouldn’t evade peoples’ minds. Recently, the rate has been constantly decreasing, since 2008, but we need to keep an eye on the number in hopes of it continuing to decrease. In this study I am looking at employment and factors that can alter the chances of becoming employed. I wanted to have recent data for my study, so employment statistics would be as close to the numbers I will experience when I begin to look for a job, so I looked at data from 2008 to 2013. I will be using the CPS data provided by Ipums.org. I focused on the state of Ohio in this study, because with the amount of variables I have, looking at all the states in the United States would end up being way too large. One of my biggest fears in life right now, is this fear of not being able to get a job after I graduate college. I see a bunch of old friends from high school graduating college and simply not being able to find a job. A lot of them then take on minimum wage paying fast food jobs, which is something I cannot let myself endure. This problem of finding a job or not really got me interested in seeing who has the best chance to become employed, and who is currently being hired into the work force over others.
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