So in the recent past - since 2006 or 2007 or so, at least a part of reduced unemployment was full-time employment.
(The year-on-year calculations are mine)
There was obviously a bump in part-time job creation in mid-decade. But most of the time, fulltime jobs have been on the decrease or flat.
Not in 2009, while part-time jobs gained even then.
So the conventional impression that there a kind of turn around in job numbers starting in 2006 or 2007 is not wrong.
