Figure 1
US labor market and ‘r/jobs’. (A) The U.S. quit and layoff rates from December 2000 to December 2021. Recession periods are marked with grey shaded areas. The top right corner zooms into the 2018-2020 time series for easier comparison with the Reddit time series. (B) The share of quit- and fire- related posts from 2018 to 2021. In both panels the dashed vertical line corresponds to March 2020, the orange shaded area to the Great Resignation period, and the frequency is at a monthly level