Labor Policy

Manual laborers keep the world moving—and can slow it down.

Plus: Why Refugees Can Be A Boon For Host Countries

In Mexico, a breakthrough trade case involving General Motors could become a global model.

So why are most of them not paid enough—and some not paid at all?

Allowing workers to organize would protect and empower undocumented immigrants critical to the U.S. economy.

Female economists are rising to the top—everywhere but the U.N.

Knowledge-sector jobs are heading to Eastern Europe, and the consequences could remake the EU.

The country is almost bankrupt, but it still forks out on migrant workers under the heavily criticized kafala system.

Why the push to bring home manufacturing won’t work—and what Biden should do instead.

Spain’s “mileurista” generation is a portent of things to come for the global economy.

France’s state-centered development model is a natural fit for the Indo-Pacific.

Biden’s reform plan is laudable. But it repeats the battles of the Obama years.

Just like Trump, Biden is stuck in the last century if he believes globalization is about trade and rust-belt manufacturing jobs.

And how Washington could get it back.

Companies that make microelectronics for the Pentagon argue that the current bill could maintain U.S. defense dependency on China rather than fix it.

The managing director and the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund lay out a strategy for sustained recovery.

The United States has always helped some parts of the economy at the expense of others. It’s time to get it right.