The notion of counting the number of "green" jobs in America made us think, oddly enough, of a middle-age guy trying for cool by pairing a sport coat with blue jeans. Not easy. Yet quite ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has taken up a case that may provide it with an opportunity to determine what constitutes “self-employment” for the purposes of the Unemployment Compensation Law, which ...

Economic theory works on the premise that there are two types of employment: basic and non-basic. Economic base theory claims that basic employment is the engine of a local economy largely because its ...

With the unemployment rate stuck at 9.5 percent and just months remaining before midterm elections, Democrats are pushing the idea that they other, seemingly unrelated, bills are job creation measures ...

Research shows that technology has net-net created far more jobs than it has destroyed. A recent study by Deloitte drew on data going back to 1871 in England and Wales and found that technology has ...

PARIS -- French unemployment, which has been stubbornly high since the early 1980s, is beginning to fall. And with the start of presidential elections just three months away, France's center-right ...

In this series of articles we try answer common questions about whether we can trust employment statistics, and go beyond the headline figures to assess the health of the labour market more ...

“IT IS fair to say the economy is near maximum employment,” said Janet Yellen, chairman of the Federal Reserve, in recent comments preparing markets for rate rises to come. But “maximum employment”, ...