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Those losses offset employment gains in tourism-related businesses and construction, Mr. Brown said.
All of the Labor Department's numbers are seasonally adjusted to offset employment trends that might otherwise distort the figures.
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New light industries later offset declining employment in the traditional staple industries.
Until last month, the suffering in manufacturing and temporary help had been more than offset by employment increases in retailing, wholesale trade, transportation, public utilities, engineering services, consulting and government.
Men's losses in middle-skill occupation job share were also mainly concentrated in the low-tech sector but were partially offset by employment share gains in high-skill occupations only in the high-tech industry during this period.
And, by transforming how services are provided to the public, the e-government trend can offset the employment losses with productivity gains.
This helped offset the employment-depressing effect of transfers, although my estimates suggest that the offset was less than 100 percent (more on those in future blog entries).
How does offsetting work?
Admittedly, this is partly due to declining employment in old state enterprises offsetting rising employment in new, export-oriented firms.
For example, it was found that T&C employment loss in the Kyrgyz Republic was largely offset by T&C employment growth within the informal sector [ 82].
The actual employment in the primary sector fell, though that is offset by rising employment in both manufacturing and the tertiary sector.
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