Higher wages help boost consumer spending, which spurs demand for goods and services, which in turn leads to more hiring. That could help break the long streak of stalled growth in wages, which have more or less flat-lined since the Great Recession began. The rise in unfilled job openings also means employers are having a harder time finding qualified candidates, which is usually a sign they'll have to start offering higher wages to fill those jobs. (Read more: US economy may be stuck in slow lane for long run) (Earlier this month, one woman felt confident enough to break the news to her boss in a SuperBowl ad, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't break out how you give notice.) The increasing numbers show the economy getting stronger, the theory goes, because workers are getting confident enough to take on the risk of changing jobs-or leaving the workforce altogether. Roughly 2.4 million employees are pulling up stakes each month, while the number of monthly open jobs has hit 4 million. The rise in quits is being driven, in part, by a rise in the number of job openings, which are now more plentiful than any time since 2008, according to the so-called Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, released on Tuesday for December.
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