How severe is the US labour shortage?
Investors, economists and policymakers were shocked last month following a weaker-than-expected jobs report for April that showed gains of just 266,000 jobs compared to the 1m expected.
Friday’s jobs report will offer an important update on the pace of the labour market recovery as well as fresh details about the severity of the supply-demand mismatch for workers.
Forecasts compiled by Bloomberg show economists anticipate that some of these distortions will have started to work themselves out. They are expecting 665,000 to have been added in May, with the unemployment rate falling from 6.1 per cent to 5.9 per cent.
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