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 ...

The U.S. labor market has looked really good in the past year even as inflation bites in the wider economy. But an old theory that’s recently regained ground says that there are actually two job ...

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 ...

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 261,000 jobs were created and we had 29,000 positive revisions to prior reports. This means the honey badger labor market will keep the ...

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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