Some say they steal American jobs. Others say they spur the economy. But there is one thing immigration experts across the board agree on: the rules to bring and keep high-skilled immigrants to the US need to change. The demand for high-skilled worker visas, called the H1-B, reached a record […]
Author: Natasha Madov
In the eurozone, baby steps towards recovery
One tenth here, one tenth there. Or as the Italians would say, piano piano si va lontano — going far by going slowly. That’s how the market is feeling towards the new eurozone unemployment rate to come out this Thursday. The expectation is for a very small drop of point […]
Behind one single unemployment rate, a patchwork of problems in Europe
Unemployment fell slightly in Europe in February for the third consecutive month. But there are still deep differences among countries and little agreement on how the EU will climb out of the recession in the near future. The jobless rate in the 19 countries that make up the eurozone fell […]
Low world oil prices bring no relief to Brazil’s troubled economy
In late February, a cellphone video went viral in Brazil. In it, a well-dressed blonde screams at the top of her lungs at customers in a gas station: “Don’t fill your tanks! We can’t accept this price hike! The more gas in the stations, the more the price will go […]
Good news in Europe: unemployment falls for the third month in the eurozone
The eurozone got a tiny bit of good news this Monday, when the unemployment rate fell for the third consecutive month to the lowest level since April 2012. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the 19 countries that adopt the Euro dipped to 11.2 percent in January, down from […]