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Artificial intelligence is not having widespread effects on the labor market today.
In a survey of more than 600 employers, one theme kept coming up: Despite AI, soft skills and the ability to learn still set successful job candidates apart.
Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.
Estimates of artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs and the economy range from the apocalyptic to the utopian, but the data tells a more nuanced story.
AI-driven platforms pull informal labour into the global digital economy but push the risks and responsibilities back onto workers. Cases in Indonesia show that women pay the highest price.
Uncertainty, a stumbling labor market and major structural problems are all weighing down the economy. And Fed rate cuts may not help much.
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter-point during its September meeting.
‘Forecasting is for the weather,’ economists say. But it can be fun anyway.
Fed policymakers will be paying close attention to the latest data as their next policy meeting draws nearer.
The relatively large rate cut signals that the Fed is shifting its focus from fighting inflation to supporting the labor market, an economist explains.
For a more nuanced view, dig beneath the numbers that make the news.
Despite widespread fears about immigrants being a burden, even those arriving as asylum applicants are more likely to work than the US-born population.
The Fed has been trying to tame employment and wages to keep inflation in check. It ain’t working.
The immigration decline over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an annual 1.1% GDP reduction, an economist estimates.
Labor market disruptions, supply chain strains and the war in Ukraine have taken a toll everywhere.
While the uptick in the unemployment rate in January may seem like bad news, the reason it rose actually shows the labor market returning to normal.
New research shines light on what is driving hospitality workers – like waiters and hotel workers – to abandon the industry as part of the ‘great resignation.’
The job market continued to improve in December, but a stagnating labor pool will pose more challenges for employers in 2022.
Governments use a variety of labor market policies to support workers who lose their jobs – each with a different impact on a country’s well-being.
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