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Sector analysts offer talk about cyclical, structural, and technological factors that are weighing on job growth.
Most investors have a very good idea what cyclical factors are: they relate to the business cycle, and the demand for labor that increases and decreases with the pace of economic activity. Construction jobs in the housing sector represent a good example of a cyclical sector and cyclical jobs.
Meanwhile, globalization, basically the transfer of U.S. jobs to lower-cost production centers overseas, is perhaps the best example of a structural factor. It's hard to find a U.S. manufacturing category that hasn't lost jobs - or been eliminated - by globalization, particularly the loss of jobs to China. China's cost structure is so advantageous that even Mexico is losing jobs to China.
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