The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has published a report which covers a number of details about the Great recession. Two facts that I find interesting in the report are summarized by the following ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Chris Ryan / Getty Images Frictional and structural unemployment are two ...

Is there really an economic consensus that unemployment is cyclical, as Paul Krugman suggests? Photo courtesy of Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. But when he wrote on his blog on Aug. 3 that “[t]he PBS ...

An increase in U.S. aggregate labor demand reflected in rising job vacancies has not been accompanied by a similar decline in the unemployment rate. Some analysts maintain that unemployed workers lack ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Unemployment has many shapes, forms, and causes. The pandemic and its aftermath created macroeconomic shifts in the job market. While some had more opportunities for work than before, the U.S., at ...