Employment and unemployment rates ... The accompanying chart shows how public-sector wage increases have lagged consistently behind those in the private sector since COVID-19 began.

After years of high inflation and a looming recession that never quite happened, Americans are suddenly much more optimistic ...

Additionally, the widening gap between job openings and unemployment levels, as shown in the chart below, highlights tightening labor market conditions. This can lead to upward pressure on wages ...

While wage growth and steady employment gains support a bullish short-term view, ongoing stability in unemployment and ... specializing in chart patterns and price movement. He is the author ...

Actually this is not the case (see chart); even in the 2000s ... But the inflexibility of wages does not fully explain the perennial nature of unemployment. Some level of unemployment will always ...