Is the Skills Gap Getting Worse in the UK?
The U.K. labor market remains very tight because of various economic shocks that have negatively affected labor supply. The...
Category: Recruitonomics
The Great Reallocation: Can Worker Churn Explain the Productivity Burst?
Sectoral employment shares have fluctuated wildly during the pandemic Remember when COVID-19 first took the world by storm, bringing...
Will Texas be the New California?
Texas growth miracle Texas is expanding rapidly. Its economy has been growing at a rate of more than 5%...
U.S. Labor Market Moves From Tight to Balanced
The labor market is rapidly shifting from tight to balanced as businesses have scaled back their appetite for hiring....
The Long Shadow of Deindustrialization
The U.K., a former manufacturing powerhouse The Industrial Revolution started in the North of England two centuries ago. Birmingham...
Latest Jobs Report Reframes the United Kingdom’s Outlook
Economic growth in the U.K. has surprised on the upside This week’s employment report showed some good news on...
The Real Deal With Real Wages and Productivity
The most popular incorrect chart: The disconnect between pay and productivity The disconnect between economic reality and perceptions seems...
The Labor Market is Slowing, and That’s (Mostly) Okay
Despite a heat wave stretching across the United States causing scorching temperatures (including Plam Springs hitting 124 degrees!), June’s...
Climate Change Is Today’s Economic Problem, Not Tomorrow’s
Climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a present reality affecting our lives. Its economic impact is...