Tag: "Employment"
Is the Skills Gap Slowing Manufacturing Growth?
That’s the argument made by Joshua Brown at the Christian Science Monitor site: Wells Fargo‘s Chief Economist is out with a look at the skills mismatch between what manufacturers need versus what the labor force in America can actually do. John Silvia notes that this mismatch is nothing new even as it seems more and [...]
Global Capitalism: What if Joblessness is a Feature, not a Bug?
That’s the issue raised by economists Michael A. Spence, Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Sandile Hlatshwayo, Researcher, Stern School of Business, New York University: The actions of the free market have made goods less expensive for Americans, but the free flow of labor and capital has also diminished the employment opportunities available in the United States [...]
The “App Economy” Comes of Age. . . with Opportunities Everywhere
According to the Wall Street Journal, businesses creating applications for smart devices now employ a half a million people in the US. “America’s App Economy – which had zero jobs just 5 years ago before the iPhone was introduced – demonstrates that we can quickly create economic value and jobs through cutting-edge innovation,” said Rey [...]
Which US Metro Areas are producing jobs?
The Urban Institute has a great interactive map to let you see which metro areas have done the best in job creation as our economy slowly recovers. Check it out here.
What Skills Matter Most in Global Economy? Some Surprising Answers
A new study of the Danish labor market by David Hummels and Chong Xiang at Purdue, Rasmus Jørgensen at Yale and Jakob R. Munch at the University of Copenhagen rebuts much of the conventional wisdom about the effects of globalization on the workforce: When we examine the effects of offshoring on wages for different knowledge groups, we [...]
Construction Employment: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Only it may be a very long tunnel. But over at Calculated Risk Bill McBride argues that things are looking up in the battered and bruised construction sector. So far, 2011 has seen an increase in total construction jobs for the first time since 2006. After five consecutive years of job losses for residential construction [...]
