Macroeconomics 12th Edition by Rudiger Dornbusch ,Stanley Fischer,Richard Startz

Exercise 13

Go to http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2 and click on "Categories," under "Population, Employment, Labor Markets," select "Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey)," then "Information" ("USINFO"). Using the provided graphing possibilities, take a look at the evolution of the number of employees for the information services industries during the last two decades. What event can be used to explain the increase in the employment of information technology workers during the 1990s What about the decrease in employment during the 2000s