The “dual labor market” theory paints a picture of two very different job markets in terms of stability, pay, and mobility. by Sabri Ben-Achour and Alex Schroeder. Listen Now.

Inflation is up. The stock market is down. Unemployment is just 3.5 percent. Yet labor force participation remains stubbornly low, with only 62.3 percent of the civilian population working or ...

For people over age 15, the labor-force participation rate—the share of people employed or actively seeking a job—dropped from an average of 63.1% in 2019 to 61.7% in 2021, and recovered to 62 ...

The job market is frozen. A second theory points to a deeper, more structural shift: College doesn’t confer the same labor advantages that it did 15 years ago.

Back in 2022, when the labor market was so hot that Beyoncé even released a song about it, Americans were job hopping in large numbers, boosting their salary in the process.

Both theories about harms to the labor market and the proposed divestiture reflect the FTC’s continued efforts to develop merger case law in a more interventionist direction.

The May jobs report showed the US labor market remained largely resilient amid President Trump's new tariff policy. The US economy added 139,000 nonfarm payrolls in May, more than the 126,000 ...

The number of available jobs in the US unexpectedly increased in April, new data showed Tuesday, a potential indicator that the labor market isn’t yet buckling amid broader economic concerns ...

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