RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – As North Carolina’s unemployment rate continues its steady decline, employers across the state are simultaneously ramping up their hiring efforts. There are currently tens of thousands of jobs on offer across the Triangle region alone.
According to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 5% in April, reflecting only a slight drop from the previous month. Still, that figure is 8.5 percentage opoints lower than a year ago, when unemployment hit 13.5%.
But the pace of hiring varies widely from sector to sector. April’s most significant job gains came from manufacturing, construction, leisure and hospitality services, information technology, and education and health services, per NC Department of Commerce data. At the same time, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, government, financial activities, mining and logging, and other services saw decreases
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Royal Dutch Shell is an integrated oil and gas company that explores for, produces, and refines oil around the world. In 2019, it produced 2.0 million barrels of liquids and 11.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. At year-end 2019, reserves stood at 11.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent (including equity companies), 37% of which consisted of liquids. Its production and reserves are in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and North and South America. The company operates refineries with capacity of 2.9 mmb/d located in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe and sells 18 mtpa of chemicals. Its largest chemical plants, often integrated with its local refineries, are in Central Europe, China, Singapore, and North America.
by Christian Lundblad, Luca Flabbi, and Paige Ouimet May 27, 2021 .
The current narrative around the U.S. labor market is a mixed bag. On the one hand, many companies are struggling to find enough workers to return to a semblance of normal operations. On the other, 8 million fewer Americans were employed in April 2021 as compared to February 2020.
Three experts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Christian Lundblad, Director of Research, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and Richard “Dick” Levin Distinguished Professor of Finance, Area Chair of Finance and Associate Dean of the Ph.D. program, Kenan-Flagler Business School; Luca Flabbi, Associate Professor of Economics; and Paige Ouimet, Professor of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School weigh in on the critical issues behind this dichotomy.
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A little over a year ago, Bill Putsis was sitting at Durhamâs Bar Virgile, saving a seat for a friend. When a man walked over and took the seat, Putsis politely informed him that it wasnât available. But the man didnât get up.
âI was like, âExcuse me, is this the third grade?ââ Putsis says.Â
Then he took a closer look at the chair.Â
âIâll be damned, the seat had his name on it,â Putsis says. âHe was such a loyal customer they put his name on the seat.âÂ