A new research series from the Heldrich Center explores the impact of the pandemic on New Jersey workers and households by different demographics.
Topic
wages
Higher wages and help wanted ads are plentiful, but workers aren’t filling jobs in NJ
Take leisure and hospitality out of the overall job market equation, the reserve said, and “there is relatively little decline in the correlation” between unemployment and job vacancies. Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development...
Are wages growing fast enough?
Reasons people have left the labor force include going back to school, becoming ill or disabled, staying home to care for children or elders, taking early retirement, and becoming discouraged about one’s ability to get a job at all. Economist William Rodgers at...
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