The U.S. jobs engine that powered the post‑pandemic recovery is clearly losing steam. Hiring is slowing, unemployment is ...
Recent signs of U.S. labor market softening tee up a third-straight Fed rate cut next week. We eye confirmation of this ongoing cooling in U.S. data this month. The S&P 500 rallied during a short ...
The US jobs market is almost never perfectly in balance. Even when things appear calm, there's some movement under the surface. Just take a cursory look at a chart of the national unemployment rate — ...
Beneath strong headline numbers, key labor market ratios show clear signs of late-cycle weakness and slowing demand for workers. Prime-age employment, participation, and full-time job ratios have all ...
Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper examines how oil shocks shape labor market outcomes across 89 countries from 1975 to 2022. Leveraging a ...