If you believe the locals, Oman and Saudi Arabia are the best places on earth to find a job: 69 percent of the adults in each country believe their local job market is good.
Category: employment
Jobs Report Preview
The Labor Department releases its June employment report on Friday. The median forecast is that job growth ticked up slightly to 90,000 and that the unemployment rate stayed at 8.2 percent.
Structural Unemployment and Good Jobs
Inadequate demand — rather than mismatches between job requirements and skills — is the major reason for the elevated unemployment rate, an economist writes. But even as the jobless rate declines, skill requirements for good jobs will continue to rise.
Jobs Report Preview
The latest snapshot of the job market will be out Friday morning, and economists are expecting steady growth, if not exactly gangbusters.
Mean-Spirited, Bad Economics
Punishing the long-term unemployed by refusing to extend benefits is bad economics and cruel social policy, an economist writes.
Comparing Recessions and Recoveries: Job Changes
A look at how far the United States economy has to go before it fully recovers from the Great Recession.
What’s at Stake in Friday’s Jobs Report
The economic pie is growing, but the share going to American workers is at an all-time low. Friday’s jobs report will help determine whether American workers will finally start getting a bigger cut.
United States of Health Care
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the country will add 5.6 million health care and social assistance jobs in the current decade.
Economists Take Solace (but Only a Little) in Jobs Report
Economists said the latest jobs numbers were moderately encouraging, although some of them warned not to get carried away with the results of any single month — especially December.
Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs
The loss of public sector jobs has been greater in the first three years of the Obama administration than even under Ronald Reagan.