Holiday employment trends.

• Author: Woolam, Cami
• Position: Alaska Trends

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In Alaska, the unemployment rate tends to be higher in the winter months than during the summer. In the September edition of Alaska Business Monthly, Trends looked at summer employment. This month, the focus is on the holiday season.

In November of 2007, the Alaska unemployment rate was 6.2 percent. In July, it was 5.4 percent, a difference of .8 percent or 33,800 jobs. Manufacturing, seafood processing, leisure and hospitality, trade, transportation, and utilities...