Areas where defense spending is high — specifically defense contract work — were less affected by the recession. Report Tanya Ott visits one Alabama city that has several defense-related businesses and looks at why it's prospering.
More Turkish Germans are heading back to their home country — motivated by factors like better job opportunities in Turkey and not wanting to feel like a foreigner.
The recession in the U.S has forced many Mexican migrants to return back home. In turn, the Mexican economy has gotten stronger, workers are getting paid better and unemployment rates have leveled off. Jeff Tyler reports.
The country is lacking hundreds of thousands of skilled workers. But factors like having to know German and news of anti-immigrant sentiments in the country make the country less attractive to foreign job applicants.
On Friday the Labor Department releases the most important economic indicator of the month — the monthly employment report. John Challenger explains the report, and looks ahead to Friday's numbers.
Israel's labor and demographic numbers indicate that Israel doesn't really need foreign workers. But there are still hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. Marketplace's Alisa Roth reports from Tel Aviv.
On Friday we'll get the first big employment report of the New Year from the Labor Department. It'll tell us what the unemployment rate was in December. Mitchell Hartman examines the job market.
