Conflicting Macro Data Causes Severe Headaches for the BoE GDP data showed an improving economy… Last week it looked like the U.K. economy had shaken off the shallow...
Weapons, Wine, and Beauty Products: The French Economy is Hot The French economy is doing well I recently discussed how the Eurozone is currently experiencing a reversal of fortunes....
Steering Through Challenges In a shift from the recent trend of a steadying labor market, Canada’s job market experienced a setback in...
How Strong is Too Strong? The U.S. labor market added an impressively strong 303,000 net new jobs in March. The unemployment rate fell slightly...
Immigration Unexpectedly Thwarts the Population Time Bomb A population time bomb has been heralded as imminent for many years. Proponents of the theory forecast steep and...
The UK is in the Midst of a White-Collar Recession Even as the U.K. economy experienced a very shallow economic contraction last year, the labor market continued to add...
Germany, Literally the Sick Man of Europe Germany’s economy is unhealthy… We have previously discussed how Germany may again be the “sick man of Europe”. The...
Canada Weathers the Winter Employment Storm Canada’s labor market and broader economy have been teetering on the edge of recession for several months. However, the...
No “Landing” For High-Flying Job Market The U.S. labor market continues to defy gravity: with 275,000 net new jobs in February (beating expectations once again)...
The Unexpected Wage Compression Low-wage workers have seen faster wage gains since the beginning of the pandemic. Two factors have played into this:...
Where in the World are the DINKs? While the DINK phenomenon (dual income no kids) has been especially trendy in the United States, it is not...
Keeping Up With the DINKs The global fertility crisis Fertility rates across advanced economies have fallen dramatically and are expected to remain low indefinitely....
The Divide Between Graduates’ Aspirations and Industry Demand Job seekers have grown more optimistic about their prospects within the past years, evidenced by the rise of trends...
The U.K. Slipped Into Recession: What Does That Mean for the Labor Market? Outperforming expectations but underperforming peers While the U.K. economy has vastly outperformed growth expectations set last year, it needs...
How Would We Know if a State is in a Recession? Since economists already have trouble identifying recessions at the national level, knowing whether a state is in a downturn...
Canada’s Labor Market Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back After a poor start to the year, the labor market in Canada surprisingly bounced back, adding 37,300 new jobs...
What Really Caused the Vibecession? On June 30th, 2022, Kyla Scanlon coined the term “vibecession”, suggesting that despite the economy performing better than expected,...
Jobs Market Starts the Year Off With a Bang! The U.S. jobs market started off the new year with a bang! In January, the labor market once again...
Post-Brexit, the UK is Becoming a Service Export Superpower! What are service exports? One of the fundamental changes economies have been going through over the last century is...
The Rise of the Centaur Worker: ChatGPT’s Impact on the Jobs Market How will ChatGPT affect the U.S. labor market in 2024 and beyond? The explosively popular generative AI chatbot was...