For the first time in more than six years, the unemployment rate for adult women exceeds that for men.
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Comparing Recessions and Recoveries
The country added jobs in November, the 26th consecutive month of gains: 146,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, to be more precise. But employment still has a long way to go before returning to its prerecession level.
Gauging the Storm’s Impact on Hiring
The report for November, due Friday, is expected to show a falloff in job growth because of Hurricane Sandy and perhaps concerns about Washington’s fiscal impasse.
Degree Inflation? Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s
Employers are increasingly demanding a college education for positions that did not traditionally call for one.
What Job Openings Tell Us
A drop in the supply of workers, as much as a drop in demand, can explain the high ratio of unemployed to available jobs, an economist writes.
The Jobs Picture, as a New Report Awaits
Whatever Friday’s jobs report shows, the fundamental picture of the economy is expected to be unchanged: continued recovery, but sluggish growth.
The Flawed Case for Fiscal Stimulus
The safety-net programs in the federal stimulus that helped fight the recession came at a cost of weakening incentives to work or hire, an economist writes.
The Global Arbitrage of Online Work
A global market for online work lets good workers in bad places snatch business from better-performing environments, Quentin Hardy writes on Bits.
Getting the Number Wrong
Mitt Romney said there were 23 million Americans struggling to find work. But some of the groups in the calculation may have been counted twice.
Forecasting Unemployment
According to two economists with a new forecasting model, the jobless rate should stick pretty much where it is for months.