[expat_panama]

labor market is definitely getting tighter,

True, and at the same time the number of 'not-employed' is still way over the long term trendline:

Maybe the thing is that the market's merely not as tight in comparison to what it's been recently.

[citizen]

Ya know....every time - well sometimes when I see your name I think of William H. Macy yelling over the satellite phone in the movie Sahara "NO PANAMA! NO PANAMA!!"

They did a Panama anyway.