labor-economics

Part of Teaching an AI Agent to Make Beautiful Charts A fresh college degree used to come with a quiet edge in the job market. New grads had better odds of landing work than the average worker, and that edge held for as long as anyone tracked it. Not anymore. They now face higher unemployment than the workforce as a whole, and the gap is the widest on record. What makes this strange is the timing…

Teenagers looking for summer jobs face a tough labor market. But the personal benefits are huge.

Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country Canadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a “historic and powerful step”. But the union says the deal with a corporation long hostile to organized labour is only an opening salvo in a broader…

Unite Here Local 11, the union representing SoFi Stadium workers, votes to authorize a strike less than a week before the venue will host a World Cup game.

Companies are spending more on executive perks such as luxury relocations and private jets, underscoring a widening divide between the rewards offered to corporate leaders and the more modest pay gains available to much of the workforce.

U.S. employers added jobs for the third month in a row in May, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. But wage gains softened and likely failed to keep pace with rising prices.

On May 21, 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion that the right to strike is protected under the International Labor Organization (ILO) Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (Convention No. 87).

Government figures show unemployment rate at 4.3% amid rising inflation and economic uncertainty from Iran war US employers added 172,000 jobs in May while the country’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, a sign of a resilient labor market despite rising inflation and economic uncertainty brought on by continued conflict in the Middle East. Economists initially predicted there would be about …

The employability of graduates is of great importance in educational institutions, the government, and industries, and is a growing interest among scholars and researchers, as graduates are expected to hold a strategic importance in nation-building. This study examined graduates’ employability at ISCED levels 5 and 6 by collecting primary data from 561 graduates using multistage cluster sampling.…

IntroductionAmidst the continued expansion of higher education in China, this study investigates the correlational trends and urban-rural disparities in the returns to higher education from 2012 to 2021.MethodsUsing data from the China General Social Survey (CGSS) for the years 2012 and 2021, this correlation study employed three analytical approaches: ordinary least squares (OLS) regression for …

Critics say high drop-out rate among under-18 army recruits make it a poor means of tackling youth unemployment Young people looking for employment should “really seriously take a look at the armed forces”, according to the veterans minister, Louise Sandher-Jones, and with more than 1 million 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neets), everyone that age is aware of how bl…

Workers say they deserve a greater share of the windfall and want protection from ICE and invasive data collection Workers at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, are voting on whether to authorize a strike one week before World Cup soccer games are slated to begin in the Los Angeles area. Unite Here Local 11’s strike authorization vote comes as ongoing negotiations for a new contract with stad…

Sangam Kumari, Central University of South Bihar ABSTRACT Labour Activism, Social Struggles and Social Movements had always played a significant role in protecting the rights and dignity of worker specially for those who works in unorganized sectors. In India, a large number of workers are engaged in informal sector where workers often face low wages, unsafe working conditions, lack of job securi…

Adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty at USC have voted to unionize with the UAW in a major win in California's growing campus labor movement. But USC said that it would challenge the result.

Can manufacturing help reduce income inequality? This study investigates the role of structural transformation in the United States and finds that manufacturing employment has a stronger inequality-reducing effect than manufacturing output alone.

Financial Headwinds Drive More Job Cuts in May Josh Moody Wed, 06/03/2026 - 03:00 AM Colleges across the nation cut multiple jobs and programs last month as many sought to rein in projected budget deficits ahead of the start of a new fiscal year. Byline(s) Josh Moody

Officials broke ground on the project Monday, with expectations to create more than 2,400 jobs for Galveston and Port Arthur and invest more than $730 million to grow the business in Texas.

Student groups tell inquiry about ballooning debt and ‘sneaky changes’ to loan terms while likening system to finance scandals Graduates saddled with ballooning student loan debts feel they are being unfairly used as “cash cows” to finance measures benefiting older people such as the state pension triple lock, MPs have been told. Student representatives told an official inquiry about the “harrowi…

Government says it would prefer workers to be guaranteed between eight and 20 hours a week based on regular hours Business live – latest updates Ministers are facing criticism from unions and employers after laying out details of plans for a guaranteed regular working week as part of a ban on zero-hours contracts . Under rules poised to come into force next year, employers will have to offer staf…

Youth unemployment has risen dramatically since the pandemic—as has the prevalence of remote work. Our analysis suggests that these trends are related, with remote work making it more difficult for managers to train and mentor new employees. Accordingly, companies may be reluctant to hire less-experienced workers in distributed work arrangements. We estimate that remote work can explain 64 percen…