Source: Factset
Homebuilding in Delaware last month. Significant growth in employment is expected to start in the second half of 2021, the U.N. labor organization said. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
Global employment will take years to return to prepandemic levels, the United Nations’ labor organization said on Wednesday in a report that urged governments to build social protection systems to avoid the destabilizing effects of deepening economic and social inequality.
The pandemic wiped out around 144 million jobs last year, including a projected 30 million new jobs that would have been created, the International Labor Organization said in its assessment of employment and social trends.