The U.S. economy may have fared better than others over the last five years despite finding itself at the center of the 2008 financial crisis, but data from the OECD show the country's job market performed as badly as Iceland and Portugal.
"Since the second quarter of 2008, the employment rate has declined by around 2 percentage points in Estonia, the euro area, New Zealand, Norway and Slovenia, by more than 4 percentage points in Denmark, Iceland, Portugal, and the United States," it said.
The three countries that have seen employment growth are Turkey, Germany and resource- rich Chile, according to the OECD, which says men and the young have been the hardest hit.
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