The Latest Breaking News from Unemployment

New figures show real wages are falling nationally at the highest rate since records began in 2001

The number of people in employment remains below pre-pandemic levels

Unemployment has hit a near 50-year low but companies are struggling to find workers

With almost full employment, nearly everyone willing and able to work is in a position already. So which industries are feeling the squeeze, and why?

University courses have returned to a far-flung corner of the Northern Territory, in a bid to try and turn around high unemployment rates, and skill people up in remote communities.

Study challenges idea poor outcomes are due to Muslims’ so-called ‘sociocultural attitudes’

Several Opposition parties, including TMC, BJD, Shiv Sena, TDP, Akali Dal, CPI(M),CPI, RSP and JMM, skipped the meeting chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker

Workers don’t think their boss is open to giving a fat pay increase, writes Michael Pascoe. Fears of a a wage-price spiral are well overblown.

Digital labour platforms are rapidly transforming the world of work. Many governments in the global south have welcomed platforms that bring businesses, workers and consumers together, creating opportunities to reduce unemployment. But what happens when jobs are turned into tasks? Workers are increasingly managed by apps that allocate these tasks…

The Middle East’s population is growing almost twice as fast as the world overall, and one-third of its people are under the age of 15.

While there are no ironclad laws of politics, two tendencies in the United States -- midterm swings against the incumbent party (the "midterm blues") and the negative electoral effects of inflation and unemployment ("political business cycles") -- come pretty close. US President Joe Biden (whose approval rating has sunk for…