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Canada's labor market rebounded in February, making impressive gains of 40,700 net new jobs in a high interest rate environment.

The U.S. labor market continues to defy gravity: with 275,000 net new jobs in February (beating expectations once again) job growth doesn’t appear to be “landing” at all.

After decades of stalling wage gains for the lowest earners, the U.S. is experiencing a dramatic wage compression.

Couples in different advanced economies face different opportunity costs when it comes to children, creating different pockets of DINKs across the globe.

Raising kids has become increasingly expensive but not necessarily in the way that you think. Women increasingly choose career over babies – welcome to the DINK phenomenon.

Despite the robust job market, recent college graduates face greater challenges in securing employment than the rest of the population.

GDP data confirmed that the UK slipped into recession in the second half of 2023. The BoE needs to reverse course quickly or else face a more severe downturn.

Pinpointing a national downturn is difficult enough, but knowing whether a state is in a recession or not is even more tricky.

The Canadian labor market made some impressive employment gains in January, but trouble is still brewing under the surface.

The jobs market added a surprisingly strong 353,000 net new jobs in January, while the unemployment rate remained low at 3.7%.

Brexit may have created barriers to trading goods for the U.K., but it might also create an opportunity to become a service export superpower.

Data revisions have subtracted more than 400,000 jobs throughout 2023, something that Fed policymakers should keep an eye on.

OECD countries have seen a surge in migration recently. In the future, expect permanently higher migration flows due to new factors at work.

Overall GDP growth in the U.K. has been steady, but the increase is driven by population growth, rather than productivity and income growth.

Canada's economy ended 2023 with weak job gains and a significant slowdown. As we move into 2024, the outlook doesn't look great.

Since the pandemic started, stability has been lacking in the labor market. The outlook for 2024 looks much more normal.

The United Kingdom's economic outlook is only slightly more uncertain than its current status, which is bad news for the central bank.

The outlook for the Eurozone is not looking positive for 2024, especially if the European Central Bank continues on its current path.

The American jobs market once again saw impressive gains in November, as shown in a jobs report that supported the soft landing narrative.

Recent developments have contributed to impressive labor force outcomes for disabled workers, but are they permanent or transient solutions?

The Canadian labor market added 25,000 new jobs in November, while the unemployment rate rose to 5.8%.

Will the proposed tax cuts from the U.K. government's actually boost economic growth or is their usefulness overstated in nominal terms?

Employees desire meaningful work, but not every worker finds purpose within their professions. What can employers do to help curate purpose?

Though more and more people are graduating from college, the U.K. labor market has a troubling graduate skill premium.

Rapidly rising interest rates didn't create the big economic downturn that many forecasters predicted. How did the economy avoid a recession?

BoE officials have made it clear that they are now willing to sacrifice the labor market to bring down inflation, but the official numbers are unreliable.

Many assume young workers are driving the push towards remote work, but age alone does not determine whether one is working onsite or not.

The strikes in the auto industry impacted job growth this month, as the labor market added 150,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%.

The Canadian labor market grew by 18,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate increased. The labor market is certainly cooling.

A century ago, John Maynard Keynes envisioned a future world where a 15-hour work week was the norm. Was he really so far off the mark?

U.S. GDP growth was a startlingly strong 4.9% in Q3, driven by consumer spending. This level of growth is very far from recession territory.

Recently Federal Reserve data reveals that Americans are wealthier than ever. Net worth, adjusted for inflation, surged during the pandemic.

The risks to quantitative easing are benign during anemic recoveries. In this period of high inflation, it could results in bad losses.

Job growth surprised again in Canada last month, but strong wage growth complicates things for the Bank of Canada's fight against inflation.

The U.S. economy added 336,000 net new jobs in September, proving that the labor market remains strong despite recession fears.

Time has run out on the pandemic-era child care funding program. That presents a challenge to working parents and child care providers across the country.

Corporate greed has been wrongly blamed for this bout of inflation. Greedflation isn't the problem. Excess growth and labor shortages are.

Is this the moment of resurgence for cities and states in the Rust Belt that suffered in recent decades due to the "China Shock"?

Inflation has subsided, while the economy has been surprisingly strong. A soft landing looks likely, but there are still some risks.

Organized labor has been the hottest trend lately, earning the name "hot labor summer." But this era of labor activity is far from over.

The story of the United Kingdom's economy lately has been one of disaster, but recent revisions may have changed the narrative.

Canada's labor market is cooling, but population growth in the country remains strong. Unemployed workers face a more difficult hiring landscape.

High frequency indicators allow economists to gauge economic performance in real-time and they are pointing at a German contraction.

The U.S. labor market is clearly cooling. In August, the economy added 187,000 net new jobs and the gains in June and July were revised down.

The dysfunctional housing market in the United Kingdom prevents workers from moving to highly productive cities, leading to underperformance.

After years of stagnation following the Eurozone crisis, Southern Europe has turned the tables and is now outperforming the rest of the Eurozone.

America’s history is rooted in an open immigration policy – and owes much of its economic success to it.

Advanced economies are experiencing very tight labor markets. This worker shortage has implications for hiring. Recruiters are increasingly poaching employees rather than recruiting from a shrinking pool of unemployed, which has implications for monetary policy.

The U.S. labor market added a moderate 187,000 net new jobs in July and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%.

After a strong jobs report in June, the Canadian labor market lost 6,000 jobs in July, but underlying trends remain strong.