A smaller supply of potential workers is keeping unemployment low, but it is a challenge for the economy at large.

"Our report shows that while AI is automating some types of work, it's not automating jobs in their entirety," said Lisa Simon, chief economist at Revelio Labs. "The content of work is changing ...

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 ...

Every change in the economic environment presents profit opportunities as well as problems. The persistent tightness in the labor market, which will last through 2030, will mostly challenge companies, ...

The lessons of the last economic crisis always loom large. Following the Great Recession, a consensus began to build that America hadn’t done enough to stimulate the economy through the early 2010s. A ...

During the post-pandemic period, the vacancy-unemployment ratio was at historically high levels, but the strength of overall labor demand was unclear. Analysis using data from the National Federation ...

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 ...

The AI jobs debate has been trapped between two lazy extremes. One camp insists a white-collar collapse is already underway. The other dismisses every concern because the unemployment rate has not ...

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