Artificial intelligence is likely to impact jobs differently, based on the skills workers use everyday. For example, white-collar jobs are most at risk while those requiring more physical ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

An unsettled labor market is usually an indication of a troubled economy. In fact, a rapidly increasing unemployment rate characterizes the start of recessions. Therefore, a timely and accurate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an economist specializing in labor markets and policy. Employers added 206,000 payroll jobs in June, according to the new ...

This paper examines how oil shocks shape labor market outcomes across 89 countries from 1975 to 2022. Leveraging a high-frequency oil supply shock series and a rich panel of quarterly labor market ...

Business owners who still have occasional nightmares about high employee turnover rates during the Great Resignation can sleep more soundly these days. Accumulating evidence indicates that the ...

A majority of the nation’s 36 million workers ages 25 to 34 have not completed a four-year college degree. In 2023, there were 19 million young workers who had some college or less education, ...

The labor market is “essentially going sideways,” according to Eric Johnston, chief equity and macro strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald, who characterized current conditions as weak but not necessarily ...

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