Daniel Zhao
Chief economist at Glassdoor, tracking US hiring, pay and job-search trends.
Glassdoor chief economist Daniel Zhao reported on 23 July that the share of US jobseekers searching for six months or longer has risen sharply, even as headline jobless claims hit a 57-year low.
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Daniel Zhao is chief economist at Glassdoor, leading its Economic Research team.
His work tracks US job-search duration and sentiment among jobseekers, a measure distinct from the initial jobless-claims series that only counts new benefit filings.
His July 2026 finding of a sharp rise in long-duration job searches fed into a wider case that record-low jobless claims understate real labour-market strain.
He tracks lengthening job searches
Daniel Zhao, chief economist at Glassdoor, reported on 23 July 2026 that the share of US jobseekers searching for six months or longer has risen sharply year-on-year.
He presented the finding as evidence of lengthening unemployment spells that headline claims data does not capture, since claims measure new filings rather than how long people already out of work stay that way.
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