The U.S. labor market is weaker than headline unemployment data suggests, with rising involuntary part-time work masking ...

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has launched a small debate about the nature of today's ongoing unemployment crisis. Is it "structural," meaning that it reflects a "natural" shift in the way ...

The nation's 10.2% unemployment rate — the highest level in 23 years — is being viewed by some analysts not as a peak but as the beginning of a sustained period of above-average unemployment. For ...

The June employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics would have been viewed as punk under any circumstances. But given the stage of the recovery and the massive doses of fiscal and monetary ...

Among all the reasons advanced to explain Democrats’ defeat at the polls, structural unemployment has gotten little or no mention. Technological advancement creates demand for new skills (software ...

(Reuters) - There is little evidence that the bulk of U.S. unemployment today is structural, but such a problem could develop if more people don't find work quickly, the Wall Street Journal reported, ...