The self-employed are back at work in pre-COVID-19 numbers, but their businesses have smaller payrolls
Hiring by the self-employed has fallen since 2019, with the cutbacks emanating mainly from businesses run by men.
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Hiring by the self-employed has fallen since 2019, with the cutbacks emanating mainly from businesses run by men.
Roughly one-in-five workers say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months, but only about a third of these workers think it would be easy to find one.
With the economic recovery gaining momentum, unemployment among immigrants is about equal with that of U.S.-born workers.
In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new analysis of median hourly earnings of full- and part-time workers.
The challenges of a COVID-19 economy are clear for 2020 college graduates, who have experienced downturns in employment and labor force participation.
Here’s how the COVID-19 recession is affecting labor force participation and unemployment among American workers a year after its onset.
About half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their prospects for future employment.
Fewer than a third (30.8%) of U.S. teens had a paying job last summer. In 2019, 35.8% of teens worked over the summer.
The shares of mothers and fathers who are working have fallen from 2019 to 2020, but the falloff has been comparable for each group.
The share of unpartnered mothers who are employed and at work has fallen more precipitously than among other parents.
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