The fortunes of the labor market are the economic indicators we perhaps feel the most as individuals. For our labor market forecast, we use two distinct metrics. The first is the “payroll report” from ...

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 3 (May 2016), pp. 913-939 (27 pages) This article distinguishes between two types of division of labour discussed by Smith. The ...

During the post-pandemic period, the vacancy-unemployment ratio was at historically high levels, but the strength of overall labor demand was unclear. Analysis using data from the National Federation ...

Since Monday is Labor Day here’s a look at the federal department that was created to study labor and give the American people statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is an agency of the U. S.

The US Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General is initiating a review of “challenges” at the Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding collecting and reporting key economic data. The review will ...

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 ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers driving that bread to market and grocers selling ...