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 ...

Labour economics examines the allocation of work effort and the functioning of labour markets, analysing how wages, employment and worker well-being are determined. It explores the supply of ...

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Post Labor Economics: How will the economy work after AGI? Recent thoughts and conversations Shapiro outlines some interesting ideas, which I'll attempt to summarize below if you don't have time to ...

Labor market polarization describes the growing share of employment and wage mass at the extremes of the occupational distribution, with high-skill, high-wage and low-skill, low-wage jobs expanding ...

Introduction : the labor question in the late nineteenth century -- The Cant of economy : narratives of depression in the 1870s -- Meat versus rice : anti-Chinese rhetoric and the problem of wage work ...

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 force participation (LFP) rate for prime-age workers surged from early 2021 through early 2023, especially for women. This helped reduce the large shortfall of available workers relative to ...