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Friday, October 26, 2012

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
CNN Money | Spanish unemployment hits new peak
Spain's unemployment rate hit a record high of 25% in the third quarter, as the jobless total grew to nearly 5.8 million people.
CNN Money | American Airlines to hire 2,500 pilots
The iconic, but troubled, American Airlines says it intends to hire 2,500 pilots over the next five years.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
NBER | The United States Labor Market: Status Quo or A New Normal?
The recession of 2007-09 witnessed high rates of unemployment that have been slow to recede. This has led many to conclude that structural changes have occurred in the labor market and that the economy will not return to the low rates of unemployment that prevailed in the recent past. Is this true?

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Economist | Labour lost
I've been mulling over an interesting new (or newly updated) paper by Guillermo Calvo, Fabrizio Coricelli, and Pablo Ottonello on the labour-market consequences of differing inflation rates in the wake of financial crises.