Are weak employment figures here to stay?
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There was a time when adding slightly fewer than 150,000 jobs a month in the United States, three years into an economic recovery, would have been considered a disaster.
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The UK's jobs market for graduates stays buoyant - but starting salaries in London are falling, a survey suggests.
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Jobless workers in Boston with the right skills could find employment soon. Some area employers expect to maintain a steady hiring pace during the fourth quarter of 2004, according to a survey released yesterday by Manpower Inc. The outlook is brightest in wholesale and retail trade, education, and public administration.
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An unusually large share of workers have been out a job for more than six months even as overall unemployment has remained low, a little-noted weakness in the labor market that analysts said threatens to intensify the impact of the unfolding economic downturn.
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Governments cannot prevent inexorable job migration
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The new year may be a slow one for job seekers, as few area employers expect to be hiring in the first quarter of 2005, the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey showed.
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The government's report indicated that employers are still cautious about hiring despite more than a year of healthy economic growth.
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The nation needs to add about 150,000 jobs a month to keep pace with population growth, according to economists. While employers have added jobs for 12 consecutive months, the
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US businesses added just 96,000 jobs to payrolls in September, the government reported on Friday, a weaker-than-expected total that was expected to sharpen a presidential debate later in the day over the economy&#39;s direction.
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Government response has been praised, but the poorest are still looking for work or new homes.
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Fat paychecks, pensions and health insurance are not enough to recruit and keep employees these days.
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The most dynamic, future-oriented industries are having trouble finding qualified employees.
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It appears to be avoiding dire predictions of a sharp rise in unemployment and a loss of business confidence.
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The gross domestic product is up, but jobs are down. Economists say yes, that is possible. MIAMI - It seems, at first blush, to be a baffling contradiction.
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Payroll growth was the weakest in two years in February but a lower unemployment rate and a revision higher for January job growth hinted at surprising resilience in the nation's labor market.
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Investor's Business Daily - A quarterly survey of 14,000 employers showed no change in the net employment outlook, or the difference between firms planning to hire and those planning to fire, Manpower said. Despite a credit crunch and a drop in Aug. payrolls, most employers still see demand for workers with only slight weakening in labor demand vs. a year ago.
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WASHINGTON - Employers' payrolls grew by just 96,000 in September in a weaker-than-expected government report Friday that provided a final snapshot before Election Day of a lackluster jobs market.    The Labor Department report means President Bush will face the electorate with 821,000 fewer jobs in the country than when he took office, though 1.78 million jobs have been added in the past year...