The unemployment rate is an important indicator, but it is not the only one to watch. By itself, it doesn’t paint a full ...

The latest employment report showed that 177,000 jobs were added in April, down from 185,000 in March but higher than the ...

Americans in their 20s continue to have lower employment and labor-force participation rates than before the pandemic, and ...

Gains in labor force participation rates in Chile have slowed in recent years. We examine their determinants using a cohort-model analysis. Allowing for both age- and cohort-specific effects in the ...

What is driving the long-term increase in prime-age men’s labor force nonparticipation? Comparing the experiences of four generations of prime-age men shows that prolonged continuing education ...

Despite significant headwinds from population aging in most advanced economies (AEs), labor force participation rates show remarkably divergent trajectories both across countries and across di erent ...

The biggest was the departure of millions of older workers, ending a decades-long rise in employment and labor-force participation rates for those 65 and older. Smaller, but perhaps more troubling ...

This has contributed to slower labor ... labor force participation in the U.S. and its industrialized peers. In this paper we examine the drivers of this trend, focusing specifically on prime-age men ...

The US added 177,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate held at 4.2%.

The jobs report was a modest gain of 177k, but it way outpaced estimates, which was enough to juice the stock market, leading ...

The employment rate increased by 0.6 percentage points to 49.2%. Employment among men was estimated at 66.9%, while it was 31.9% among women. The labor force participation rate rose to 53.4%, with the ...

In the ongoing discourse surrounding workplace dynamics, a critical and often underestimated challenge has come to light – ...