Unemployment Data

Overall, 1.8 million Americans were collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended March 9, up a modest 4,000 from the week before.

Filings for jobless claims tick up modestly, continuing claims fall

Analysts say the continuing claims have been rising because many of those who are already unemployed may now be having a harder time finding new work.

Unemployment rate surges to 7.77% in October from 6.43% in a month: CMIE

According to the data, rural unemployment has seen a steep surge from 5.8% in October to 8% in September.

Employment in the Indian economy has been shrinking since 2011-12, says KLEMS database

The KLEMS database finds that the number of persons employed fell from 47.16 crore in 2011-12 to 46.47 crore in 2018-19

In China and India, street vendors face similar urban challenges

Visible in both China and India is a dominant vision of urbanity that perpetuates sanitised order and pristineness, devoid of any informal or irregular spatial practices. Street vendors, like other low-wage migrant workers, continue to be ‘strangers in the city’ in both countries

Social security is very much work in progress

The pandemic has underscored the pressing need for passing the Social Security Bill immediately

A structural shift in job market

Without corrective government steps, increased formalisation of labour looks a distant dream as informal employment sees a spike

Assembly Elections 2019: How Maharashtra and Haryana fared under the outgoing governments

Due to the lack of a strong contest by a fractured Opposition, political experts have given the edge to the saffron party(s).

US job growth rebounds sharply, unemployment rate hits 4.4%

Nonfarm payrolls jumped by 211,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, well above the monthly average of 185,000 for this year and a jump from the gain of 79,000 in March.

U.S. job growth slows sharply, unemployment rate falls to 4.5 percent

Non-farm payrolls increased by 98,000 jobs last month as the retail sector shed employment for a second straight month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the fewest since last May.

Hard to imagine 2012 will be worse than 2011: EM Capital

In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Seth Freeman, CEO, EM Capital Management talks about how US markets are faring at the start of 2012.