The US employment figures will, as usual, be the centre of financial market attention when they are published on Friday. But whatever this month’s figures show, they will not alter the fact that something has gone badly wrong in the American labour market in recent years. Once the envy of the developed world, US unemployment has risen much more sharply than in other economies since 2008, and this has come after a prolonged period in which the number of jobs in the economy has been considerably less responsive to GDP growth than used to be the case. So what has changed?
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