Big data on job-vacancy postings reveal several dimensions of the impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. job market. Firms have cut back on postings for high-skill jobs more than for low-skill jobs, with small firms nearly halting their new hiring altogether. New-hiring cuts and downskilling are most...

Big data on job-vacancy postings reveal several dimensions of the impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. job market. Firms have cut back on postings for high-skill jobs more than for low-skill jobs, with small firms nearly halting their new hiring altogether. New-hiring cuts and downskilling are most...

This paper reviews the principal neo-liberal policy measures implemented in Latin America in the last decade and their impact on equity. It first emphasizes the difficulty of separating the repercussions of liberalization measures from the necessary fiscal adjustments of the 1980s, and their...