News
WSJ | Japan Job Market Deteriorates
Japan's job market worsened in October, with the country's unemployment rate jumping to 4.5% from 4.1% in the previous month, the government said on Tuesday.
Econ Comments
Fox Business | From Part-time to Full-time: Escaping Underemployment
Since the recession began, the percentage of part-time workers in the American workforce has grown to nearly 20%.
WSJ | Recipe for Middle-Class Jobs
Brain Hubs' Like Austin, Texas, Create More Work for Less-Educated Residents.
Blogs
WSJ: Real Time Economics | How to Create Middle-Class Jobs in 435 Steps
One way companies are creating new middle-class jobs is by cutting up complicated intellectual tasks into smaller bits — much the same way factories created millions of middle-class jobs by reducing mass production into a sum of small tasks, as the Journal reported today.
