Discover the differences between frictional and structural unemployment and their impacts on the economy. Understand why frictional unemployment is less concerning.

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. may be entering a period of structurally higher unemployment as ...

"The UK has had very low productivity growth for a really long time, and a lack of investment and new infrastructure," she said. "That cascades down, and it's the people trying to enter the labor ...

In 1994, South Africa emerged from apartheid with global goodwill, democratic legitimacy and the promise of shared prosperity. Yet three decades later, that promise remains unfulfilled. With an ...

California’s labor market has not yet shown much sign of recovery from the recession that began in 2001. As in the rest of the nation, employment has been flat to down, the unemployment rate has ...