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Oregon’s North Coast
Continuing our quarterly series on Oregon’s regional economies. This post originally appeared in our office’s June 2014 quarterly economic and revenue forecast document. Oregon’s North Coast –...
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Oregon Household Formation
Household formation is key economic indicator as it represents, as Derek Thompson at The Atlantic writes, “more people getting jobs, getting apartments, getting married, having kids, and (in all...
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Oregon Stay-At-Home Parents
Every family — traditional and non-traditional alike — faces the decision of how much time to take off following the birth of a child — based on work schedule, employer provided leave, family time,...
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A Follow-Up to Stay-at-Home Parents
I have fielded a lot of questions and feedback on the recent Oregon Stay-at-Home Parents report our office issued last week. For the record, we have copy-edited the report and reissued it on the...
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Jobs, Labor Force and Population
Much attention is being paid to measures of labor market health like the labor force participation rate and the employment to population ratio, with good reason. However, I would caution drawing too...
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Oregon Spider Chart, June 2014
This Graph of the Week is an update on the Oregon spider chart. See here for more on the construction of the graph which follows the pioneering work by the Atlanta Fed at the national level. As a...
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Columbia Gorge, Sept 2014 Edition
This post continues with our regular series on the regions within Oregon. For more, see the regional tab at the top of the page. The mighty Columbia River, second largest in the U.S., borders the Gorge...
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Central Oregon, Sept 2014 Edition
This post continues with our regular series on the regions within Oregon. For more, see the regional tab at the top of the page. Central Oregon, situated in the hub of the state, has experienced...
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Those Two Economic Narratives
Right now there are two main economic narratives out there. The first is that the economy isn’t getting better, that for most people and most households, the recovery has been minimal, at best. The...
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Destination Oregon
Today Mark is delivering a speech at the Oregon Economic Forum on one of the state’s greatest advantages: migration. In both good times and bad, people want to live here. While there are pros and cons,...
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Demographics Matter. (Graph of the Week)
Demographics matter. Quite a bit, to be sure. It has even been said that demography is destiny. This is one thing I have really learned about in this job. Specifically the age cohort component models...
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Economic Recovery Scorecard
Next week we’ll take a look at the outlook for the much discussed middle-wage jobs, plus a broader outlook on when the Oregon economy may hit full employment. In advance of those reports, today we’ll...
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Population, Demographics and Generations
I don’t know if it’s paternal instincts or not, but I’ve been thinking a lot more about generations and demography lately. I just wanted to share some of graphs our office uses and talk briefly about...
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Oregon Population 1900 – 2050
This edition of the Graph of the Week explores Oregon’s population over time and is quick since our next quarterly forecast is fast approaching (Thursday.) I love what Bill over at Calculated Risk has...
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Populations in Need: Poverty and SNAP
Oregon’s underlying economy is more volatile than the typical state. We do worse in downturns (larger job losses, higher unemployment, higher populations in need of assistance) but we also do better in...
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Start-Ups and New Business Formation
While the plethora of new high-technology firms draws the media headlines, you may or may not know that entrepreneurship overall and start-ups in both Oregon and nationwide have been declining for a...
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Economic Drags and the Outlook
So far in early 2015, the U.S. economic data flow has been relatively lackluster, including the disappointing March jobs report. As such, now is a good time to take a step back and mark one’s economic...
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The Timber Belt
This work originally came out of the Destination Oregon talk Mark gave at the Oregon Economic Forum back in the fall. We use this material regularly in our public talks and I was recently involved in...
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Graph of the Week: Oregon Population
The fact that Oregon receives a large influx of migrants in any given year is well known. In both good times and bad, Americans choose to move to Oregon. However, this influx tends to be concentrated...
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Graph of the Week: Oregon Income and Wages
The fact that Oregon has below average income, by any conventional measure, has been well documented. See the Employment Department’s report or the library of work from ECONorthwest on the subject....
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