The rapid advancements in technology poses both challenges and opportunities for employment and the labour market and it is ...

President Donald Trump has been asked several times about whether the United States will enter a recession. In a recent ...

Recessions hurt. North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate hit 11.2% during the peak of the Great Recession in 2010. During ...

Definition: A labour market is the place where workers and employees interact with each other. In the labour market, employers compete to hire the best, and the workers compete for the best satisfying ...

Definition: Labour force participation ... At the time of recession, it is generally seen that the labour force participation rate goes down. This is because, at the time of recession, the economic ...

This is the period comparable with our Labour Force ... accepted definition of unemployment. This is because they have not been seeking work within the last four weeks or they are unable to start work ...

Since comparable records began in 1971, the economic inactivity rate had ... the International Labour Organization (ILO) definition. A more detailed explanation is available in our Guide to labour ...

Of the 177,000 jobs added, the healthcare and social-assistance sector accounted for nearly a third of all gains.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, but job opportunities are ...

Students graduating this spring are entering an uncertain labor market as tariffs work through the economy, but experts say ...

With mounting evidence that tight labor markets do not necessarily boost inflation and facing massive job losses in 2020, ...

But why is that? In our research published in The Review of Economic Studies, my co-authors and I conclude that it depends on labor market concentration. We found that in areas where a few ...