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April 5, 2013

One positive item in the latest jobs numbers is that the share of unemployment due to people voluntarily quitting their jobs rose to 8.4 percent, the highest since last March. This can be an indicator of workers’ confidence in their job prospects, but we would have to see it persist for a longer period of time for that to be the case.

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For more, see the latest Jobs Byte.