Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an economist specializing in labor markets and policy. Employers added 206,000 payroll jobs in June, according to the new ...

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 ...

An unsettled labor market is usually an indication of a troubled economy. In fact, a rapidly increasing unemployment rate characterizes the start of recessions. Therefore, a timely and accurate ...

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Business owners who still have occasional nightmares about high employee turnover rates during the Great Resignation can sleep more soundly these days. Accumulating evidence indicates that the ...

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 ...

This paper explores how fluctuations in crime rates influence labor market outcomes in Mexico. Using detailed survey data and an individual-fixed effect estimation, the analysis reveals distinct ...