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Title: Fewer Americans Strike Out for New Jobs, Crimping the Recovery *Author:* PATRICIA COHEN http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/patricia_cohen/index.html?version=meter+at+1&module=meter-Links&pgtype=article&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fbusiness%2Finternational%2Findex.html%3Fmodule%3DSectionsNav%26action%3Dclick%26version%3DBrowseTree%26region%3DTopBar%26contentCollection%3DBusiness%26pgtype%3DBlogs&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=meter-links-click

*Source:* NY Times

*Date:* May 26, 2016

*Summary:* A new analysis http://www.brookings.edu/%7E/media/Projects/BPEA/Spring-2016/MolloyEtAl_DecliningFluidityLaborMarket_ConferenceDraft.pdf?la=en&version=meter+at+1&module=meter-Links&pgtype=article&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fbusiness%2Finternational%2Findex.html%3Fmodule%3DSectionsNav%26action%3Dclick%26version%3DBrowseTree%26region%3DTopBar%26contentCollection%3DBusiness%26pgtype%3DBlogs&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=meter-links-clickby Ms. Wozniak and economists at the Federal Reserve Board to be published soon by the Brookings Institution used a combination of factors — job shifts, movement in and out of the labor force, interstate migration, job creation and destruction, among others — to measure what they called fluidity or dynamism in the labor market.

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