The Stock Market is Not NOT the Economy: Financial Crashes and the Labor Market
U.S. economic policy has been highly erratic since the election of Donald Trump. For months, both friends and foes...
Category: Recruitonomics
Healthcare Regulations: More Coverage, More Complexity
This is part three of a four-part series focused on the healthcare labor market, and the major trends shaping...
Is this the Calm Before the Tariff Storm?
The March jobs report was calm on the surface, but it is an unfulfilling bright spot in a new...
Retirees: The Silver Tsunami for the Healthcare Industry
This is part two of a four-part series focused on the healthcare industry and the major trends shaping its...
Retirees, Regulations, and Robots: The Three Rs Reshaping Healthcare Recruiting
Healthcare is the defining labor market story of the 21st century. No industry has added more jobs, reshaped more...
Germany’s €1 Trillion Bazooka: What Does it Mean for the Labor Market?
For decades, Germany has been the poster child of fiscal conservatism, adhering to its self-imposed debt brake and prioritizing...
Can Increased Defense Spending Save the German Economy?
Months ago, Germany’s government plunged into crisis. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition collapsed amid internal disputes over fiscal policy and...
Despite the DOGE Blitz, Hiring Still Ticks
The first two months of President Trump’s new administration have been a whirlwind of policy changes. Just this week,...
Ongoing and Worse Than We Thought: The White-Collar Downturn
The labor market data released in early February by the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) was noteworthy primarily for...
The Great Stay: Has the Job Market Lost Its Dynamism?
Less hiring, less firing, and less quitting. The dynamism of the U.S. labor market—how often workers switch jobs in...
Tight Labor Markets are a Strong Pull Factor for Immigrants
International migration is a complex phenomenon caused by many push and pull factors. Push factors, such as economic hardship,...
The Past, Present, and Future of the US Labor Market
Today’s jobs report, for January 2025, was not your typical jobs report. Beyond the monthly job gains and unemployment...
Some UK Workers Won’t Work Overtime: Blame Tax Insanity!
The Labour government announced one of the most consequential Budgets in decades this past fall. The measures proposed –...
Gen Z is Struggling to Find Footing in the Job Market
Think of today’s labor market as a ladder. Prime-aged workers are climbing steadily, but our youth are finding the...
Eastern Europe’s Growth Miracle, Delivered by the EU
EU membership led to rapid economic change When my family moved to Prague for several years in 2003, the...
The Landing Was Soft. Will Policy Shake It Up?
The U.S. labor market added a solid 256,000 net new jobs in December, rounding out a strong year. Despite...
How this Grinchy Jobs Report Stole Christmas
The holiday cheer has just begun to set in, but a chill just swept through the United Kingdom economy...
Weak Consumers are Holding Back Europe’s Largest Economies
Europe’s economies are grappling with a multifaceted crisis marked by industrial stagnation, geopolitical instability, and the lingering effects of...
A Decent (but Boring) Report to Round Out 2024
The U.S. economy continued to add payroll jobs at a very healthy pace last month. The data that was...
What Does the Trump Victory Mean for the UK Economy?
In a previous blog post, we discussed how the U.S. election will affect the German labor market. In this...