What is Wyomings history of separations from the labor market?
Wyoming seems to experience a high quantity of separations(4), although comparable data are unavailable from other states. Data for the years 1992 through 1997 were used for this study. The following tables and charts refer to the years 1993 through 1995. This is due to the fact that it is necessary to have one prior year and two post years to analyze a reference year. All three of the reference years show very similar results. Figure 1 shows that the number of separations from the labor market ranged from 48,634 in 1993 to 52,250 in 1995. This figure shows that the number of separations increased steadily over the three reference years. These separations accounted for almost 20 percent of each reference year’s labor market (see Table 1). In 1993 there was a total UI covered labor market(5) of 271,622 individuals (see Table 1). Of this total, 48,634 individuals were not found in the Wyoming covered labor market in either 1994 or 1995. They had left or separated from the Wyoming labor m
