Christy
Angel Diva
NY Times article, with many factors discussed:
Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
Health concerns, expanded jobless benefits and still being needed at home are among the reasons would-be workers might be staying away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/upshot/unemployment-pandemic-worker-shortages.html
There's also a Planet Money, which was interesting, but it was also from October...still, they do address the core question. Their answer is, more or less, we just went through a period of major economic upheaval and it will take a while to shake out and regain balance. The economist they interviewed was adamant we do not have an actual labor shortage, as the hallmark of that is rising wages. And we don't have rising wages.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919720917/jobs-friday-the-worker-shortage-mystery
Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
Health concerns, expanded jobless benefits and still being needed at home are among the reasons would-be workers might be staying away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/upshot/unemployment-pandemic-worker-shortages.html
There's also a Planet Money, which was interesting, but it was also from October...still, they do address the core question. Their answer is, more or less, we just went through a period of major economic upheaval and it will take a while to shake out and regain balance. The economist they interviewed was adamant we do not have an actual labor shortage, as the hallmark of that is rising wages. And we don't have rising wages.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919720917/jobs-friday-the-worker-shortage-mystery