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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      US transparency laws trigger pay disputes

      Employers face ‘upset’ workers as they learn what colleagues earn for the first time

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      US interest rates
      Investors expect smaller rate rise amid cooling wages and market fears

      Fed predicted to increase by 0.25% in March after day of mixed economic data and collapse of SVB

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Raghuram Rajan
      Hard landing or harder one? The Fed may need to choose

      Beliefs in an immaculate disinflation with only mild job losses could soon be put to the test

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      US adds 311,000 jobs in February but wages cool

      Robust employment and cooling hourly earnings cloud Federal Reserve’s outlook

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Economists Exchange
      Alan Manning: ‘Achieving growth by just having more people is not what we should aim for’

      The UK government’s former immigration adviser considers whether Britain’s post-Brexit migrant strategy has worked

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Aveek Bhattacharya
      Campaigners for a four-day week can’t afford to slack off just yet

      New research suggests that the regime benefits both staff and employers, but we can’t take it all at face value

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      US child labour violations rise as businesses defy laws to fill roles

      Tight job market fuels increase in breaches as some state legislators push to relax rules

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      US companies say it is easier to hire despite low jobless rate

      Investors have been concerned that a tight labour market threatened the Fed’s efforts to bring down inflation

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      News in-depthUS economy
      Biden’s planned US building boom imperilled by labour shortage

      Half a million more construction workers needed as public money floods into infrastructure and clean energy

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      Black Americans ‘trade up’ to higher-paying jobs amid labour market squeeze

      Job seekers from minority groups are taking advantage of a pandemic-related boom in areas such as transportation

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Birth, death and BLS

      Minding the NFP/QCEW gap

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Marietje Schaake
      Tech lay-offs are a golden opportunity for the public sector

      There is a wealth of talent out there ready to be snapped up to work for the common good

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      News in-depthFederal Trade Commission US
      US companies mount resistance to proposed ban on non-compete clauses

      Roughly one in five American workers are bound by agreements restricting ability to take a new job at a competitor

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      US inflation
      Fed chair warns of even higher rates if jobs data stays strong

      Jay Powell says taming inflation will take ‘significant period of time’

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The puzzle of the US economy

      Despite mixed data, the Fed needs to remain steadfast in getting inflation down

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      The US jobs mystery

      “A ripple, not a wave”

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      UnhedgedEthan Wu
      The enigmatic US economy Premium content

      A confusing picture gets more so after the jobs report

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      No signs of US slowdown in surprisingly robust jobs market

      Economists debate whether Fed is orchestrating a ‘soft landing’ or failing to cool the economy enough

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Capital markets
      US stocks and bonds fall after blockbuster jobs report

      Equities gain on the week but investors reassess interest rate outlook after unexpected labour market acceleration

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      US jobs total surges by over half a million in January

      Labour market’s resilience leads to bond sell-off as investors reassess Fed’s interest rate stance

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      The Long ViewKatie Martin
      Robust jobs data delivers a swerve to markets

      Employment growth completely resets the main risk for investors for the rest of this year

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Missing: the 2022 recession

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    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Was some of last year’s job-market strength “overstated”?

      Probably, says Barclays

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      US economy
      US jobs boom in the ‘busiest spot in the busiest oilfield’

      Crude production from the Permian Basin has soared to a record high

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      UnhedgedEthan Wu
      The forever labour shortage Premium content

      Two views on wages, ageing and inflation

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