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BusinessWeek
March 22, 2004 |
The Price Of Efficiency Stop blaming outsourcing. The drive for productivity gains is the real culprit behind anemic job growth   |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Ceyda Oner |
Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hyun-Sung Khang |
Surviving the Third Wave After the financial and economic crises, a "third wave" is engulfing the labor market, leaving millions without work and changing the course of their lives. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
James V. DeLong |
Old law vs. the new economy How New Deal-era regulations stifle flexible work arrangements... |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Jobless Recovery: Deja Vu All over Again But unlike the early '90s, hiring now will take longer to turn around |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Speed Bumps On The Road To More Jobs American businesses face powerful reasons not to hire |
Job Journal
January 17, 2010 |
2010 Job Market Outlook: Job Growth Begins to Take Hold as Employers Gain Confidence 2009 began with the largest downsizing the American job market has received in over a decade. With all future forecasts predicting job growth, the question remains, when will job creation finally begin to outpace job elimination? |
Reason
July 2004
Brink Lindsey |
10 Truths About Trade Is globalization sending the best American jobs overseas? Hard facts about offshoring, imports, and jobs. |
BusinessWeek
April 9, 2007
Coy & Ewing |
Where Are All The Workers? Companies worldwide are suddenly scrambling to manage a labor crunch. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
Peter Coy |
The Lost Generation The continuing job crisis is hitting young people especially hard - damaging both their future and the economy. |
Job Journal
July 1, 2007
Rich Heintz |
Temp Agencies If you aren't including staffing agencies in your job search, you may be overlooking one of the quickest ways to get yourself hired. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Conlin & Bernstein |
Working...And Poor In today's cutthroat job market, the bottom rung is as high as most workers will ever get. But the political will to help them seems a long way off. |
Fast Company
August 2000
Ron Lieber |
The Permatemps Contretemps It is the dark side of Free Agent Nation. Here's how the mix of Microsoft's human-resources policies, unwilling temps, high-tech union organizers, and "permatemp" agents produced unintended consequences -- and a cautionary tale. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: A Jobs Recovery, Yes. A Hiring Boom, No. Intense cost pressures and weak pricing will keep payrolls from surging |
BusinessWeek
November 25, 2009
Jane Sasseen |
The Slow Road to Jobs In recent recessions, employment has taken longer and longer to return. Why this lag may be the longest |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2011
Peter Coy |
The Youth Unemployment Bomb From Cairo to London to Brooklyn, too many young people are jobless and disaffected. Inside the global effort to put the next generation to work. |
Salon.com
September 20, 2000
David Moberg |
Everything you know about the new economy is wrong In California, birthplace of the high-tech boom, the wage gap is growing, setting yet another national trend... |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
David Blanchard |
IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing's Biggest Challenge: The Economy As part of the IndustryWeek 2009 Salary Survey, we asked the open-ended question: What is the biggest challenge facing the manufacturing industry today? |
Job Journal
July 30, 2006
Mark Edward Nero |
Temporary Agencies Becoming a Permanent Solution More and more, temporary employment agencies are asked to supply companies with employees beyond the typical fill-in secretary or clerical worker. |
Job Journal
January 11, 2004
James E. Challenger |
Workplace Predictions Imagine one day employers bidding for workers in online auctions, work schedules set by the year vs. the week, and colleges offering a degree program in generational mediation. A look at the future of work |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Mandel & Dunham |
Can Anyone Steer This Economy? Global forces have taken control of the economy. And government, regardless of party, will have less influence than ever |
Job Journal
September 3, 2006
Rich Heintz |
A Labor Day Look at Causes for Concern It's no surprise that the rising cost of healthcare is hitting the pocketbooks of American workers hard. |
Job Journal
June 2, 2013
John A. Challenger |
Career Pros: Labor Shortage Looms While Millions Jobless How can we have staffing shortages when millions are unemployed? A multitude of mismatches are to blame. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Where All The Jobs Went Here's a sobering statistic: All nine recessions between 1948 and 1990 saw employment return to pre-recession levels within 31 months. Today, 42 months after our recession began, we've only regained about a fifth of lost jobs. |
Job Journal
September 5, 2010
John Challenger |
Career Pros: Job Market Recovery is Stronger Than Many Think Compared to previous recessions, the job market is recovering quickly. |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Rowley & Hall |
Japan's Lost Generation Japan Inc. is back, but millions of young workers have been left behind. |
BusinessWeek
August 25, 2003
Mandel & Madigan |
Commentary: Outsourcing Jobs: Is It Bad? An accelerating pace is raising concerns over its effects. Two BusinessWeek economists debate whether that's good or bad |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Coy & Brady |
Old. Smart. Productive. Surprise! The graying of the workforce is better news than you think. People in their late 50s, 60s, and 70s have now become the largest underutilized pool of human resources in the economy. |
Entrepreneur
July 2004
Chris Pentilla |
Here to Stay When you're looking for new hires, temps may not be as temporary as you might think. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 27, 2003 |
What Labor Shortage? Debunking a Popular Myth It's a prediction frequently made by think tanks and consulting firms that companies and the U.S. economy are going to cope with a dearth of workers in the years to come. The problem, however, is that this piece of conventional wisdom is false. |
BusinessWeek
November 12, 2009
James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Signs Say: Job Growth Ahead Don't expect payrolls to turn around quickly, but economic trends are encouraging. Plus, heady productivity gains are not sustainable, and more workers will soon be needed. |
CFO
November 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Waiting, Wondering, Worrying What if 10% unemployment is the new normal? |
BusinessWeek
July 29, 2010
Vits & Randow |
The Price of Saving Jobs in Germany With help from the government, German companies managed to save half a million jobs. Hiring new workers may prove difficult. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Employment Cost Index The quarterly BLS release of the employment cost index provides a look at what employers have to pay in order to obtain the labor they need. By observing changes in the index, you can potentially anticipate economic trends that may affect the companies in which you invest. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Your Employer Is Ruining Your Retirement Here's how to handle it. You have to do everything you can to protect yourself from the moves that many employers are making right now. |
Job Journal
June 12, 2005
James E. Challenger |
Maturing Workforce Favors Aging Boomers As baby boomers age and the labor force begins to shrink, businesses must reconsider their attitude toward hiring older workers. Smart companies will capitalize on this vast pool of talent and experience. |
Fast Company
August 2004
Alison Overholt |
The Labor-Shortage Myth When boomers start to retire, the theory goes, we'll see a job boom. Too bad it won't happen. |
CIO
November 15, 2003
Megan Santosus |
When (or if) the Boomers Say Bye-Bye Conventional wisdom holds that the mass retirement of the baby boomers will trigger a hiring frenzy. Conventional wisdom is wrong. |
BusinessWeek
November 7, 2005
Brian Bremner |
Japan: A Downside Of Downsizing After sharply downsizing the workforce, Japan finds it doesn't have enough workers. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
"American Workers are Struggling More Than Ever" AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, who has revitalized the 13 million-worker organization, says we shouldn't be fooled by recent good economic news. American workers are struggling more than ever. |
Job Journal
September 9, 2012
John A. Challenger |
Career Pros: Labor Day is Time to Renew Efforts The annual holiday honoring America's workforce is an appropriate time to reassess your job search and redouble your efforts toward achieving your employment goals. |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003 |
Welcome to the Amazing Jobless Recovery It will take 340,000 new jobs a month to get back to near-full employment by late 2004. Sadly, there's little chance of that happening |
BusinessWeek
May 21, 2009
Aili McConnon |
Temp Giant Robert Half Welcomes Boomers Amid the recession, Robert Half is trying to profit from the growing pool of experienced workers. |
Job Journal
January 22, 2006 |
Jobwire for the Week of January 22, 2006 2005 a good year for job growth... Interviews are the biggest hurdle... On the job front... Hiring 'wrinkles' costs less... High school career mag to debut... Training the 'Pod people... Women dropping out of workforce... |
Job Journal
December 13, 2009 |
Jobwire Expect High Jobless Rate to Linger... Quarter of Workforce Could Become Temps... Holiday Hiring Increase Brings Joy... California has Green Thumb for Green Jobs... On the Job Front... Hirings and Firings... |
Job Journal
November 13, 2005
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Seniors Search for Welcome Mat For people in their 60s and 70s, finding a good job can be a challenge, according to those who study the labor market. |
BusinessWeek
January 26, 2004
James C. Cooper |
So Where Are The Jobs? They're On The Way Are things really as bad as the latest employment data imply? Probably not. The fact is, the recent payroll data are giving the wrong impression of the strength of the labor markets. It has happened before, especially during the early stages of the recovery from the 1990-91 recession. |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Michael J. Mandel |
The End Of Upward Mobility? Not On Your Life Bleak stories aside, both rich and poor advanced over the past decade. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2012
Morgan Housel |
A Big Upgrade for America's Jobs Market Finally, good news. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Peter Coy |
The Hidden Job Crisis for American Men Men are disappearing from the workplace in ways that don't always register on the official unemployment rate. |
