joining us by skype is paul mcdonald, senior executive of robert half.tart with you. 40 -- for the 40,000 foot view, what is going on for you? [laughter] because therest are a lot of economists here does not mean we know what is going on, first of all. [laughter] headed forare another strong report. the consensus is around 190,000. see any reason why we should see a slowdown in terms of job growth. i could easily see this report being in the 200,000 range. david: give us a sense about wage increases and participation rates, to #are you focus on -- 2 numbers i know you focus on. alan: wages have been sluggish. we came waiting for a transition to 3% wage growth. we will hopefully see that soon. if not, it makes us rethink some changes that could have a significant impact on the job market. labor force dissipation is being driven by primarily demographics. we have 10,000 people a day turning 65 and retiring, i think that will be the main driver of labor force participation the next decade. unless we make a significant effort to try to bring people back to t

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