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Job market stable as youth unemployment rate drops

Students attend a job fair at Tsinghua University in Beijing, March 15, 2024. China's overall employment situation remained stable in 2024, with the unemployment rate for young people continuously decreasing in the past four months, thanks to the government's supportive policies and effective job promotion measures. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on Tuesday that about 12.56 …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

MORNING BID AMERICAS-Payrolls, Williams and Waller - a big decider

Hindustan Times

Sept. 6 - A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan MORNING BID AMERICAS-Payrolls, Williams and Waller - a big decider Friday looks set to play out like a concentrated version of what markets have been navigating all year - what's the fine balance for the U.S. economy to both dodge recession and allow …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

U.S. job growth improved in August, but hiring trend is slowing. What will the Fed do?

LA Times

Job growth picked up in August from the sluggish pace of hiring the previous month, providing a bit of relief after a sharp slowdown earlier in the summer roiled financial markets, sparked fears of a recession and threatened to disrupt the momentum Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign had built up. August job numbers for individual states won’t be …

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1 year, 2 months ago

China starts publishing youth jobless data again, with a new method and a lower number

Associated Press

HONG KONG — China published youth unemployment data Wednesday for the first time since the jobless rate hit a record high in June last year, using a new method that showed an apparent improvement. Previously, the youth unemployment rate counted students who worked at least one hour a week as employed, and those who said they wanted jobs but could …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Employment rate increasing in July after steep fall in June: CMIE

Firstpost

CMIE said India’s June 2022 labour statistics had been highly disappointing. Employment fell by 13 million from 404 million in May 2022 to 390 million in June 2022 Kolkata: After witnessing a steep fall in the employment rate in June 2022, economic think-tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has estimated that the trend has been reversing in the current month. …

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2 years, 11 months ago

The federal budget forecasts say we'll reach full employment. Will it happen?

ABC

Do you feel like the economy is heading towards full employment? Under the NAIRU regime, the economy could apparently be in "full employment" when the unemployment rate was 4 per cent, or 6 per cent, or 8 per cent or higher. They said their model had suggested Australia's economy would be close to full employment when the unemployment rate was …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Job scenario brightens: Employment rate recovers to pre-2nd wave level

Deccan Chronicle

Chennai: Employment rate has bounced back to pre-second wave levels after slowing down during the lockdown months. Weekly estimates show that the employment rate had touched 38.5 per cent in the week ended March 28 before the second wave descended. Half of the recovery was achieved in the first week ended June 13 when the employment rate sprung back to …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Reserve Bank and Treasury admit 'full employment' is not what they thought it was. And it's held the country back

ABC

When a glacier shifts a few inches, a gigantic movement has still occurred. It said its model had been showing that, in the five years prior to last year's recession, Australia's economy would be close to "full employment" when the unemployment rate was roughly 5 per cent. He said Australia could have an unemployment rate of 4 per cent "tomorrow" …

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4 years ago

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe warns on house price boom

ABC

The Reserve Bank has issued its bluntest warning yet about the dangers of the latest house price boom, and the possibility regulators may step in to deflate it. Key points: RBA governor Philip Lowe admitted low interest rates are driving up house prices, but said the bank will not adjust its policy based on the housing market Mr Lowe said …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Fed’s Powell adds urgency to Biden’s call for strong stimulus

Al Jazeera

In a speech before the Economic Club of New York, US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell urged lawmakers and business leaders to help push for maximum employment amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. job market remains a long way from a full recovery and called on both lawmakers and the private sector to …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Good news for India's urban job seekers amid pandemic

India Today

Millions of Indians have lost their jobs during the ongoing coronavirus crisis and continue to worry as the pandemic situation in the country seems to have taken a turn for the worst. But even as rising coronavirus cases and intermittent lockdowns threaten India’s employment recovery rate, data on new jobs added in July gives a fresh ray of hope. Not …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Dutch scraps plans for forced minimum hourly rate for freelancers

NL Times

The government decided against implementing a statutory minimum rate for freelancers, as proposed by Minister Wouter Koolmees of Social Affairs and Employment. According to the government, the proposal would lead to too high an administrative burden for freelancers or self-employed without any staff, NOS reports. A part of the proposal that the government will implement is a so-called web module …

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5 years, 3 months ago

The US economy created a whopping 266,000 jobs last month …

Al Jazeera

… which means the United States Federal Reserve is looking rather clever about now. The US economy added a whopping 266,000 jobs in November, blowing away most analysts’ expectations. November’s stellar performance and the revisions pulled average monthly job growth in 2019 up to 180,000 – more than enough to absorb the estimated 100,000 new people who enter the US …

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6 years ago

UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low as number in work hits record high

The Independent

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6 years ago

Opinion | The reason India jobs data is not credible

Live Mint

Thanks to the politicisation of unemployment figures ahead of the general elections, we now have numbers being flung at us from all directions. We have household survey data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy ; we have the Azim Premji University’s State Of Working India 2018 report; we have monthly data on subscriber additions to the Employees’ Provident Fund …

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6 years, 1 month ago

Employment enjoys a strong start to the year with a flood of full-time work in January

ABC

Australian employers have started the year on the hunt for workers, with 39,100 new jobs being created in January. Key points: Unemployment rate holds at 5pc with jobs growth balanced by more people looking for work Australia is developing a two-speed jobs market with NSW and Victoria booming, while unemployment is elevated in other states The better than expected result …

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7 years, 5 months ago

Jobs growth remains robust pushing unemployment down to 5.5pc

ABC

Australia's unemployment rate has dipped to 5.5 per cent following another strong spurt in jobs growth during September. Key points: Job growth is now running at its fastest annual rate since August 2015 The unemployment rate drops another notch to 5.5pc Underemployment also improving and may start to drive up wage growth In seasonally adjusted figures, 19,800 new jobs were …

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7 years, 9 months ago

Unemployment rate falls to 5.5pc as full-time job creation continues to boom

ABC

Australia's unemployment rate has tumbled to 5.5 per cent as another 42,200 jobs were created in May. The figures easily beat the market's consensus of a net 10,000 gain in job and the unemployment rate remaining steady at 5.7 per cent. Other measures of labour market tightness showed the underemployment rate — where an employee works fewer hours than desired …

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8 years, 11 months ago

Black and Asian graduates more than twice as likely to be unemployed

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The new analysis of official statistics, released by the Trade Union Congress …

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9 years, 1 month ago

Why Some Still Can't Find Jobs As The Economy Nears 'Full Employment'

NPR

Why Some Still Can't Find Jobs As The Economy Nears 'Full Employment' Enlarge this image toggle caption heshphoto/Getty Images/Image Source heshphoto/Getty Images/Image Source "Full employment" is a phrase economists use to explain how the job market recovers from a recession. If the economists don't mean zero unemployment when they use the phrase "full employment," what do they mean? Sponsor Message …

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9 years, 9 months ago

Unemployment: Economists tip steady rate but risk is for rise

ABC

The latest jobs figures are expected to show unemployment remaining steady, but economists believe it could rise in the coming months. Today's employment figures, out from the ABS at 11:30am, are widely tipped to show the unemployment rate remained at 6.2 per cent in May, with around 15,000 jobs being added. "We've seen the job ad figures that were on …

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11 years, 1 month ago

What's in a number? The employment figures explained

ABC

Every month, the nation's attention is drawn to official employment numbers, but what do they mean? The underemployment rate in November 2013 was 7.6 per cent, and the underutilisation rate was 13.4 per cent - around two-and-a-third times higher than the unemployment rate in that month of 5.8 per cent. The Reserve Bank has said previously that around 1 percentage …

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11 years, 5 months ago

Employment rate of college grads questioned

China Daily

BEIJING - The high employment rates of college graduates published by universities around China are being questioned, after comparisons with the lower rates reported by job markets this year. "Despite the record-high number of graduates this year, the employment rate of many colleges remains as high as 90 percent, almost the same as the previous year," said Ye Zhiming, vice …

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11 years, 8 months ago

Tasmania's rising jobless rate presents social challenges: PM

ABC

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has flagged talks with the Premier about Tasmania's economic future, after the state's jobless queues grew again in June. "We've seen that with the first home builder's boost, it didn't happen overnight but it's starting to deliver results." "You can see there is a real crisis in not only the ability of people to find …

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