South Korea added 113,000 jobs in September, the Ministry of Data and Statistics reported. Health and social welfare services added 207,000 on their own, according to Seoul Economic Daily, so every other industry together lost a net 94,000.
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Umeå study links young adults' long work disadvantage to poorer mental health in their parents
Umeå University researchers link young adults' persistent work disadvantage in their twenties to poorer mental health in their parents. It is an association, and the design as described cannot say which way the effect runs.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI will eventually augment, downgrade or eliminate about 40% of jobs worldwide, with graduates first in line. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who co-chairs the World Bank's Jobs Council, wants crisis-era hiring aid made permanent.
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Half of the new £2,000 UK apprentice payment depends on keeping the hire for a year
Britain's government will pay non-levy employers £2,000 per apprentice aged 16 to 24, routed through training providers with no application. On the published terms, it helps firms already planning youth hires more clearly than it makes a case for adding heads.
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Demographics explain 121,000 of the 193,000 jobs Korea's 20-somethings lost
Employment among South Koreans in their 20s averaged 3.279 million a month through August, down 193,000 and the steepest eight-month fall since 1998. A shrinking cohort accounts for about two thirds of it.
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- Hype gap+18
- Incentives24
- Confidence62