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1 – 10 of 20The union represents some 340,000 workers at UPS, the largest US package delivery company. The United States is experiencing a rise in strikes and work stoppages espite low union…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280183
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Services including healthcare, entertainment and travel flourished while the share of housing in overall consumption fell, reflecting property-market troubles. Markedly lower…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285173
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Headline consumer price inflation is edging down in the United States and the euro-area, but companies are accused of being slow to pass lower costs to consumers. These suspicions…
Elevating stagnant wages is Tokyo’s top priority and anti-deflation tool, necessary in creating a virtuous cycle of rising prices and incomes that boosts economic growth.
Despite fears of a recession, the US economy continues to add jobs and employers report difficulties attracting and retaining workers. Wage growth is decelerating fitfully…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281325
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Curbing migration across the US southern border has become a major source of bipartisan tension, but often lost in the political arguments is the extent to which migrants are…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285402
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The move by non-tenure-track faculty and post-doctoral researchers came two months after Claudine Gay resigned under pressure as the university’s president. The two developments…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286015
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These changes, which focus particularly on casual workers, faced particular lobbying from parts of the business sector, which described them as costly and unnecessary, but they…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB282370
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The time may be right to move on from what was designed to combat deflation, and attention is being given to wages for guidance. However, rising prices are not feeding through…
The invasion of Ukraine is causing strains in Russian society to show, with opposition to another mobilisation and rising appetite for peace talks. The economy is overheating in…