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The great demographic shift: East Asia’s population decline | Foreign Brief A demographic shift is underway in East Asia, as deaths have started to overtake births across China, Japan and…
From improving efficiency (meaning fewer workers to accomplish the same quantity of work output), or eliminating jobs all together, AI-based technology will have large impacts on labor. This is how,…
Declining fertility rates are just starting to impact the availability of labor. In just a few years, this gets very serious.
The Career Goal of the Moment Is a ‘Lazy-Girl Job’ (msn.com) Like quiet quitting before it, the lazy-girl job is the latest iteration of 20- and 30-somethings of both genders…
Well, probably. Some day. But the last two years have not been good for the naysayer expert predictions of imminent doom: Ask anybody on Wall Street last December what was…
Mattel Needs Barbie’s Movie Magic to Lift Toy Sales – WSJ Toy R Us filed bankruptcy in 2017 and liquidated everything in 2018. The bankruptcy was blamed on not being…
But the supply of workers has since rebounded by about 10.6 million people. That recovery has owed partly to a pickup in the foreign-born labor force, which has accounted for…
This, at best, can only be a temporary fix: Korea will explore ways to accept more foreign workers to address its low birth rates and workforce shortages, the finance ministry…
Even though, historically - as in forever - over time, the world gets better, and in recent decades a LOT better, the non-stop doom and gloom reporting of the media…
"A record number of young adults in the US are currently living at home, and all that saved rent is sparking a luxury boom"