As unemployment falls, the quit rate normally rises; but the rate fell significantly in the last quarter, from 12.8 percent in September to 10.3 percent in November, before rebounding to 10.8 percent in December.
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"There are undoubtedly brilliant and able female students out there, but employers know that quit rates and absentee rates are higher for female employees, " said Atsushi Seike, a professor of labor economics at Keio University.
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Company officials presented studies to the FDA advisory panel today that showed its Nicotrol inhaler could improve quit rates at one year-- 6 months after stopping inhaler use-- by about twice that of a placebo therapy.
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At 12 . 2 percent of the jobless, the so-called quit rate of people who left their jobs voluntarily was up from 11 . 2 percent in April and from 9 . 4 percent in May 1996.
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One seeming anomaly in Friday's report was a plunge in the so-called quit rate, the share of the unemployed who voluntarily left their latest job and a statistic that Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, has often cited.
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The quit rate _ the best measure of how confident workers are that they trade their old job for a better one _ has been hovering close its highest level since the beginning the economic expansion seven years ago.
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As unemployment falls, the quit rate normally rises; but the rate fell significantly in the last quarter, from 12 . 8 percent in September to 10 . 3 percent in November, before rebounding to 10 . 8 percent in December.
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The quit rate, or percentage of people who are not working each month because they left their jobs voluntarily, typically to take another position, has jumped from 11.8 percent, on average, in 1997 and 1998 to more 13.2 percent this year.
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In June, the so-called quit rate _ the fraction of people looking for work who left their last jobs without having lined up another _ rose to 14.5 percent, the highest level since the end of the long, strong 1980s boom.
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In June, the so-called quit rate _ the fraction of people looking for work who left their last jobs without having lined up another _ rose to 14 . 5 percent, the highest level since the end of the long, strong 1980s boom.
