According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the “Great Recession” officially ended four years ago. Nonetheless, job growth remains anemic. Many economists have struggled to explain its ...
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s (CECC) latest annual report – released to coincide with International ...
Amazon is likely to run out of prospective workers for its US warehouses by the year 2024, according to an internal memo that was leaked to Recode. The memo contained internal research from 2021 that ...
After last week’s weaker-than-expected payrolls release, the Fed will likely lower policy rates at the next FOMC meeting in September. Although concerns over a slowdown in labor demand have gained ...
Global apparel supply chains remain vulnerable to forced labour, pushing governments to introduce legislation that holds ...
A worker watches as a machine processes cotton yarn at a Huafu Fashion plant, as seen during a government organized trip for foreign journalists, in Aksu in western China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine. It was written by Katy E. Wilson, who completed Rutgers Business School's Master of Supply Chain Management program last year, and Maung K. Min, ...
Since its release earlier this year, Chat GPT-4 and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have led to a plethora of speculation about how entire ...
The current jobless rate of 3.4% is below the natural rate, implying labor market tightness and according to the Phillips curve construct. For the Phillips curve to "work," changes in unemployment and ...
The United States needs to invest in its workers—a proven method to grow the economy by growing the middle class. Expanding the pool of available workers would not only help ease inflationary ...
Higher wages aren’t necessarily the answer to solving the supply chain labor shortage — at least that’s what employers today are hoping. Dan Johnston, chief executive officer of WorkStep, a vendor of ...