The World Economic Forum's Saadia Zahidi writes about the complex ways AI is transforming the global labor market.

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 ...

The labor market recovered quickly from the massive Covid-19 pandemic-induced downturn in early 2020. The labor market regained its prepandemic strength within a few short years. Moreover, it stayed ...

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 ...

Last week’s jobs report wasn’t a “good” report, but it wasn’t a collapse either. Payrolls are still growing modestly, and the unemployment rate hasn’t spiked. Even so, the underlying message is clear: ...

Lately economists have been vigorously debating the health of America’s labour market. Some argue that the jobs market is weakening, portending a downturn and requiring further interest-rate cuts from ...

A majority of the nation’s 36 million workers ages 25 to 34 have not completed a four-year college degree. In 2023, there were 19 million young workers who had some college or less education, ...

The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for advancing understanding of women’s labor market outcomes. Goldin is only the third woman to win ...

Economic Survey 2025–26 proposes an AI Economic Council, stressing labour-market alignment, ethical governance, data safety, and infrastructure readiness as India advances its AI ambitions ...