Fewer young men working in NL after 2008 financial crisis: Planning Office

1 week, 5 days ago

Can Tokyo’s four-day workweek from 2025 help tackle the population crisis?

The Tokyo government will allow employees to work four days a week, starting April 2025. The birth rate in Tokyo stands at 0.99, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to sustain the population Toyo also announced a another policy which will allow parents with children in grades one to three in elementary schools to trade off a portion …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Significant rise in women workforce participation: Minister Karandlaje

Live Mint

New Delhi: The participation of women in the country's workforce has seen a significant increase over the past six years, Shobha Karandlaje, Union minister of state for labour & employment, said on Thursday. Responding to a question from Rajya Sabha member of parliament Sagarika Ghose on women employment, Karandlaje told the upper house that the worker population ratio, or the …

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2 months ago

Why British men are ditching work for a life on benefits

The Telegraph

Cribb describes this trend as “worrying” and suggests some of it started in the classroom during lockdown. “I think it’s an open and reasonable question whether this is a hangover from poor-quality education during the pandemic and the huge disruptions that happened.” Laurance Hancock, founder of The Boathouse Youth, a charity, says he’s witnessed the damage of lockdown first-hand. “The …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Britain records biggest jump in male worklessness in G7

The Telegraph

More men have given up on work in Britain than in any other G7 nation, new analysis shows, fuelling fears about the scale of the worklessness crisis. The proportion of working age men participating in the labour force has plunged from a record high of 84pc in 2009 to 80.9pc this year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and …

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3 months, 1 week ago

This generation gap is actually a valley

Hindustan Times

The age cohort that began work in the decades surrounding 1991 is now in its 50s and 60s. Now 30-40 years later, as this cohort slips into retirement and watches their kids take over the story for the next three decades, it finds itself shaking its collective head over some of the behavioural changes it sees in Gen Next, which …

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4 months ago

The job market might be more fragile than previously thought

NPR

The job market might be more fragile than previously thought NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks to senior economist at Wells Fargo, Sarah House, about the revision in jobs numbers that show the U.S. economy employed 818,000 fewer people that originally reported in March. HOUSE: Yeah, so it is pretty surprising to see that sort of downward revision when the economy is …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Only 7% of MSME credit to women; low female labour force participation drag on growth: RBI ED

The Hindu

Reserve Bank's executive director Neeraj Nigam on July 5 said low labour force participation among women is a barrier to financial inclusion efforts and also to broader economic growth. He said there is also a need to up the credit supply to women, pointing out that only 7% of the overall outstanding loans to micro, small and medium enterprises are …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Job creation, skill training should be new govt’s top priorities

New Indian Express

Joblessness and inflation were the key concerns of the electorate at the 2024 parliamentary elections. The latest Periodic Labour Force Survey, with numbers for the January-March 2024 quarter, shows unemployment—especially youth unemployment—and underemployment are indeed very high in a country where the labour force participation rate is just about 50 per cent. The PLFS shows that the unemployment rate in …

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8 months ago

Falling percentages, failing work conditions: A deeper look into women’s employment in India

The Hindu

It’s no secret that the number of women in the labour market is significantly lesser than that of men, but did you know that in India, when it comes to rural women in labour force, the number is not just low, but has been almost steadily declining over the years? And for rural women, it’s been steadily declining over time,” …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

How the ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’ lost its shine

The Telegraph

Tony Wilson, the director of the Institute for Employment Studies, says there will “inevitably be a point where a high minimum wage will start to destroy jobs, but we don’t know whether that point is now”. He says research doesn’t suggest that it will at this stage – more likely is that the country will suffer a “squeezing of the …

Wage

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report

The Hindu

India’s youth account for almost 83% of the unemployed workforce and the share of youngsters with secondary or higher education in the total unemployed youth has almost doubled from 35.2% in 2000 to 65.7% in 2022, as per the India Employment Report 2024 released by the International Labour Organisation and the Institute of Human Development here on Tuesday. Paradoxical improvements …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Debunking myths about women and the workplace

Live Mint

For years, the topic of the declining rate of female participation in the labor force has been a point of discussion. Among other things, we found women may enter the workforce on equal terms with men, but their likelihood of remaining in the workforce long-term tends to be lower. But when we look at the data at the 12-month mark, …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Fall and rise in women’s work participation

The Hindu

Arguably, the debate around trends in Indian women’s employment is only outclassed by a similar one regarding trends in poverty. The broad contours of the debate, mainly relying on data from the National Sample Surveys and Periodic Labour Force Surveys, are the following: the work participation rate for women ages 15 and above fluctuated around 42% between 1993-94 and 2004-05, …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Britain’s workforce crisis deepens as one in five employers struggle to fill roles

The Telegraph

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned last week that businesses have become “frustrated” with British workers. The number of firms registering to become sponsors to hire abroad has doubled since 2022, as more than nine million people of working age have dropped out of the jobs market. “Employer attention is shifting from helping staff weather the cost-of-living …

11 months ago

The challenges post enrolment

Hindustan Times

India is now the most populous country in the world. In the normal course of things, a younger population is an asset for any country’s economy for a simple reason: It means more working hands in both the short-term and the long-term. The ASER 2023 report titled “Beyond Basics” released on Monday shows that even basic learning outcomes continue to …

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1 year ago

Education, healthcare, EV sectors to drive jobs in Q4 FY2024: Report

Live Mint

Educational services, electric vehicle, and healthcare & pharmaceuticals sectors intend to maintain or increase their workforce in the final quarter of the current fiscal year, according to a report released by staffing conglomerate TeamLease Services Ltd. "The upcoming job landscape in consumer-centric sectors such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals, Electric Vehicles, and Infrastructure and Fast-Moving Consumer Durables reflects commendable growth," Balasubramanian …

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1 year ago

Women are losing out to men in India’s jobless growth

Live Mint

The share of women in regular salaried jobs in urban India dropped from 54% in the first quarter to 52.8% in the second quarter, according to quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey data, Business Standard reported. Since salaried workers receive regular wages, that type of work is preferred to casual work or self-employment, which also includes working as unpaid household help …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The job market slowdown is getting hard to ignore

Live Mint

It’s easy to look at the rise in the unemployment rate over the past six months and attribute it to a growing labour force, as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. argued over the weekend, or a normal rebalancing of the economy that will help control inflation, as I suggested last week was one possibility. For people who are unemployed or not …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Women's employment hangs by a thread

BBC

Women are returning to work, but there's more to the story After experiencing record job loss during the pandemic, women are back to work. As for mums specifically, August data from The Hamilton Project shows the number of women in the workforce with children is higher than it's ever been – even higher than pre-pandemic figures. Alamy After record unemployment, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

The number of available jobs in the US just fell to its lowest level in more than two years

CNN

Minneapolis CNN — Bit by bit, the US labor market is settling down from the rolling boil of the past three years: The number of job openings dipped to its lowest point in more than two years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Tuesday. “Both a recession and a soft landing look like this.” The …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Remember Reaganomics? Freakonomics? Now there's Bidenomics

NPR

Now there's Bidenomics Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP Bidenomics. Labor force participation has been increasing during this administration, but it is also historically much lower than it was 15 or 20 years ago. In fact, labor force participation of working age people is back to where it was 15 years ago. Sponsor Message I'm looking at …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Majority of readers believe artificial intelligence is developing too fast

The Telegraph

Dulan Weerasinha agrees there are both advantages and risks: “The ability to get consistent results and outcomes via a properly trained AI and/or language model… is hugely beneficial to key use cases such as risk analysis, failure detection, diagnosing diseases etc.” But Dulan opposes “seemingly uncontrolled or unvetted research” into AI, reasoning that “if highly developed models and the ability …

Ai

1 year, 7 months ago

Economist slams plan to raise JobSeeker only for over-55s, with younger recipients more financially stressed

ABC

Younger recipients of the JobSeeker payment are two-and-a-half times more likely to be financially stressed than older recipients, fresh research shows. Key points: The government looks set to increase JobSeeker payments for over-55s Economic think tank e61 says younger JobSeeker recipients are under greater financial stress Economist Gianni La Cava says older welfare recipients often have more assets than younger …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Why Gen X isn’t ready to stop working

BBC

Why Gen X isn’t ready to leave the workforce As some younger workers take career breaks, middle-aged workers are holding onto employment – both because they have to, and because they want to. ‘Immediate pressures’ One recent survey of more than 2,000 workers recently laid off at large technology companies, including Meta, Amazon and Twitter, showed nearly 9% of Gen …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Young women more likely to work part time, even without kids

Dutch News

Young women are more likely than men to work part time shortly after they have completed their studies, particularly if they move in with a partner, national statistics agency CBS said on Wednesday. The difference is even more marked once they have children, but as a whole young Dutch women are more likely to work fewer than 35 hours a …

Children Women Men Work Young Hours Cbs

1 year, 8 months ago

Young women more likely to work part time, even without kids

Dutch News

Young women are more likely than men to work part time shortly after they have completed their studies, particularly if they move in with a partner, national statistics agency CBS said on Wednesday. The difference is even more marked once they have children, but as a whole young Dutch women are more likely to work fewer than 35 hours a …

Children Women Men Work Young Hours Cbs

1 year, 10 months ago

Could the worker shortage be getting worse?

Live Mint

Sometimes it seems like everybody on Wall Street is explaining why the economy is going south and the job market will soon follow. NFIB Chief Economist William Dunkelberg reports: Forty-five percent of all owners reported job openings they could not fill in the current period, up 4 points from December. The share of owners with unfilled job openings far exceeds …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Economic Survey 2023: School Enrolment Rate Increase, Steady Decline In Dropouts

ABP News

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, presented the Economic Survey 2023 in the parliament today, January 31, 2023. The Economic Survey 2022-23 highlights a marked improvement in Gross Enrolment Ratio and Gender Parity in schools. Besides improved GER in school enrolment, the Economic Survey 2022-23 has also picked out the welcoming decrease in school drop-out rates. The …

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1 year, 11 months ago

4 In 5 Professionals In India Looking For A New Job In 2023: LinkedIn

ABP News

Four in 5 professionals in India are considering changing their jobs in 2023 and this sentiment is largely led by Gen Z, with 88 per cent of professionals aged 18-24 considering a switch, a new report by LinkedIn said on Wednesday. According to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn’s economic graph data, hiring levels in India were 23 per cent slower in December 2022 …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Unemployed population may rise in 2023; Nearly 21 cr may become jobless: Report

Live Mint

The latest report by the United Nations agency has given a negative forecast regarding the job sector for 2023. The number of unemployed people in the world is expected to rise by 3 million to 208 million in 2023--an increased unemployment rate of 5.8%, while inflation will eat into real wages, the report added. "The slowdown in global employment growth …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Small businesses to tackle long list of challenges in 2023

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Small businesses face a mix of old and new challenges as 2023 begins. “We want the unemployment level to increase because if it does, wage growth will slow, and not only is there no evidence that’s happening, if anything wage growth is about to get rocket fuel this time of year when wages go up,” said David …

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2 years, 3 months ago

72% Employees Looking to Change Employers or Pivot to a New Career Altogether: Survey

News 18

As many as 72 per cent are looking to change employers or pivot to a new career altogether. While 64 per cent expect economic growth to continue and the pandemic to fade away, 69 per cent plan to spend more time upskilling, as per a survey by Simplilearn. 30 per cent of those who were looking to pivot to a …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Youth employment deteriorated in India: ILO report

The Hindu

India experienced severe working-hour and employment losses in 2020 and 2021, and Indian youth employment deteriorated in 2021 compared to 2020, according to the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022 report released by the International Labour Organisation on Thursday. In India, the report said surveys conducted by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy show that the youth employment participation …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Inflation is driving older Americans back to work

LA Times

Job seekers wait to be called at an employment center in Omaha. “People are staying inside their homes as much as possible because we can’t afford to go out.” The size of the U.S. workforce is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, but the participation rate — the share of the overall population that’s either actively working or looking for a …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Indian women outdo men in taking the entrepreneurial plunge during pandemic

The Hindu

Here is a rosy picture. We saw this especially in the years of the pandemic, when women sheltered from a shrinking job market by starting their own businesses that also created opportunities for other women,” says Ruchee Anand, senior director, India Talent & Learning Solutions, LinkedIn, while interpreting the numbers. Managerial level Apart from being under represented in leadership roles, …

India Women Men Linkedin Leadership Roles

2 years, 5 months ago

What explains the rise in women’s workforce participation during Covid-19?

Hindustan Times

Throughout the last two years, high frequency, monthly data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has shown that women bore a disproportionate impact of the pandemic, losing a larger share of jobs, not only as an immediate aftermath of the national lockdown in April 2020, but successively, after each wave. And second, this increase was entirely driven by the …

Employment Women Rural Urban Urban Areas Increase Lfpr

2 years, 6 months ago

Why is unemployment so stubbornly high among young men?

The Independent

The decline in youth unemployment in Britain is a notable policy success, but hides a troubling failure: while young women have been flying, the position of young men has barely changed. Whereas in those days, jobless young men would typically have been classified as unemployed and seeking work, now they’re much more like to be labelled “economically inactive” – neither …

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2 years, 7 months ago

How to ensure more women in the workforce

Hindustan Times

India aims to become a $5-trillion economy by 2025. We focus on the fact that while the male labour force participation rates in the two countries are fairly similar, their female labour force participation rates are vastly different. The bulk of the research on female participation in the labour force has been on supply-side constraints: Family income and employment, marital …

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2 years, 7 months ago

'Factually incorrect': Centre rubbishes reports of Indians losing hope for work

India TV News

Highlights Labour force and workforce in the country increased during 2017-18 to 2019-20, govt said There has been an increase in the female labour force, the govt further said Employment is the primary concern of the Government of India, it said Ministry of Labour and Employment on Tuesday said that reports stating half of the working-age population has lost hope …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Wrong to infer that half of working age population dropped out of labour force: Government

The Hindu

Responding to a recent report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, the Union Labour and Employment Ministry on Tuesday said it was “factually incorrect” to infer that half the working age population had dropped out of the labour force as a large proportion was pursuing education or engaged in unpaid activities such as caregiving. A substantial portion of working …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Only 40% Indians are employed or seeking work, shows data

The Hindu

Only 40% of Indians of legal working age were employed or were looking for jobs in 2021-22. In comparison, the labour force participation rate was above 46% in 2016-17, according to data from The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. States-related analysis show that in 23 of the 24 States with data, the participation rate declined in March 2022 compared with …

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2 years, 8 months ago

The 22 Cities In America Where Young Women Earn As Much As Or More Than Men

Huff Post

Art Wager via Getty Images San Diego was one of the metro regions where women younger than 30 were earning more than their male peers, according to a Pew Research Center study. “Women are at their greatest parity with men in their early years of entering the labor market, during the teens and 20s,” Richard Fry, the senior economist behind …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Young workers give unions new hope

Associated Press

After decades of decline, U.S. unions have a new reason for hope: younger workers. McDonald’s workers still aren’t unionized, but she says her managers are more respectful and have stopped illegal practices, like making workers reimburse the restaurant if they accidentally accept counterfeit money. And last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1975 California regulation that had allowed …

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2 years, 10 months ago

The big reason the US and UK are facing such a massive labor shortage

CNN

Editor’s Note: This article has been edited from its original version. New IMF staff research uses granular data on employment and vacancies in the US and the UK to assess four commonly held explanations: The effect of generous income support on willingness to seek and take up jobs A mismatch between the types of jobs that are available and the …

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3 years ago

‘I’m 59, work six days a week – people half my age couldn’t keep up’: Readers on the great retirement

The Telegraph

'The restrictions and mundanity of office life are a fading memory' @Simon Clifford: "I quit my career in IT after 32 years in July. 'I still do work that people half my age couldn't keep up with' @Brian Thorne: "I was 59 years old last week, I work as a plasterer and builder and only need to work two to …

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3 years ago

One in five young people jobless in London as youth unemployment soars since start of pandemic

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Youth unemployment in the capital has soared by 55 per …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Data | Women researchers had fewer opportunities for research due to family obligations and care-giving duties

The Hindu

Between January and May 2020, there was an explosion in the number of scholarly articles submitted to journals, which was partly driven by COVID-19-related research. Moreover, the gap between submissions by men and women across areas of research was more pronounced for the younger cohort, suggesting that young women researchers had fewer opportunities for research due to family obligations and …

India Women Research States Men Submissions Domestic Work

3 years, 1 month ago

Many women have left the workforce. When will they return?

Associated Press

NEW YORK — There was a time when Naomi Peña could seemingly do it all: Work a full-time job and raise four children on her own. “I had to pivot,” said Peña, 41, who said the pandemic disrupted her children’s lives and led her to suspend her career because she felt she was needed more at home than at work. …

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Fewer young men working in NL after 2008 financial crisis: Planning Office

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